Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FITCH BURG, MASS., Lake Whalom Playhouse. Tom Ewell plays the put-upon psychiatrist who understands everyone but his own teen-age terribles going through The Impossible Years...
...storefronts in northern ghettoes, sought salvation in the God manufactured for the black slave by his master; He who promised "pie in the sky, after you die." Wright and his colleagues do not mince words: the God in which they seek redemption, He whom they rhetorically call upon to help them help themselves, is a God of "power, of majesty, of might...
...price. The American price is usually higher, thereby artificially raising the value of the import on which the tariff is placed. It was a defensive measure used against Germany in the First World War, and once established it never relented. Nations at the Kennedy Round were, understandably, insistent upon the abolition of this discriminatory practice. Because they did not have specific authority under the 1962 Trade Act to abolish it, the U.S. negotiators agreed tentatively to seek abolition, in return for more concessions from the Common Market, England, and Switzerland. The negotiators did have authority, however, to cut duties...
...other agreement reached in the Kennedy Round that depends upon Congressional action is the new grain deal which guarantees higher minimum wheat trading prices. The arrangement also committed participating countries to contribute 4.5 million tons of grain to a food aid program for less developed countries. Under this plan, the U.S. would supply 42 per cent of the total or maybe much more if the other countries bought their contributing share from Uncle Sam. American groups have complained mildly over the lack of significant accomplishments in agriculture, especially the U.S. failure to obtain a satisfactory guaranteed access to a certain...
...students speak of escaping the alienation they feel elsewhere, of negating the impersonalization. But these are big words for an accumulation of small satisfactions. Jean Carmel thinks that because the students spend their semester at Wellmet in an atmosphere of real tragedy they are forced to draw upon their own deepest experiences to respond to and exercise judgment on residents. The responsibility is similar to that of determining the fate of a family member. "Certainly they possess idealism and altruism," she says, "but their most striking characteristic is a belief that they can find answers themselves. They do. They...