Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground, but neither did it give the lie to the often-repeated prediction that it will eventually allow virtually any publication or motion picture, so long as it is not sold to children, sold in a pandering manner, or sold in such a way that it intrudes upon the individual's right of privacy...
...clarify Ho Chi Minh's peace terms, Buckley shot back: "Surely, as a Marxist, you don't seriously believe that your little vacation to Hanoi would have midwifed some sort of a dialectical reconciliation which would not otherwise have taken place? Surely Hanoi isn't dependent upon Yale's vacation schedule for deciding how to press its foreign policy?" Or Buckley may carry an opponent's line of reasoning one step further and make it look ridiculous. On Firing Line, TV Star Robert Vaughn started naming the people he thought had conspired to commit...
...Kenneth Galbraith appeared at a picket line of striking television employees in order to show that he would not cross it, Buckley wrote in his column: "It was a nostalgic demonstration of an old faith, rather as if Marlene Dietrich, emulating the Victorian ladies of yesteryear, were to faint upon hearing an obscenity." Buckley summed up the attitude of Texas Republicans facing the approaching presidential election: "The dilemma is how to be, at once, both a winner and a Republican. That is the lot of the woman, as La Rochefoucauld observed, who is at once inflexibly virtuous and violently inflamed...
...death penalty for traitors caught spying against the people of Israel. In addition to the annual feast of grains, or Shavuot, the scroll summons the Jewish people to celebrate hitherto unknown feasts of wine and oil following the grape and olive harvests. There are also many sentences insisting upon the need for ritual purity...
...wind, Dylan called it, some outside transcentental force which operated on him. He posed as Emerson, struggling self-consciously with an aesthetic. All songs led back t some primeval sea of thought and art. "I have built an rebuilt/ upon what is waitin/for the sand on the beaches/carves many castles." But he was wrong. Looking outwards, he spun inwards, so far, far inside. He brought it all back home to himself, back into the smoke rings of his mind. The wind? The sea? Call it the unconscious. "I'm ready for to fade into my own parade." A pipeline laid...