Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arrogant & Smug. The burden of Kavanaugh's polemic is that a church founded by Christ upon the primacy of God's love for man has degenerated into a sterile bureaucracy guided by abstract legalism. Echoing charges made by many other contemporary Catholic thinkers, Kavanaugh complains that his church's strictures against marriage for priests, birth control, and divorce have caused untold anguish and suffering to the faithful. Dominated by unBiblical superstition and decadent traditionalism in everything from its sermons to parochial schools, the church, in Kavanaugh's eyes, is pathetically outdated and corrupt...
...occasions can be read in the titles: A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment; In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband His Absence; Before the Birth of One of Her Children. To her husband there are outpourings of diffident ardor: "My head, my heart, mine eyes, nay, more." His business trips rankled...
...Aldredge is the talkative Gratiano. In the Trial Scene, when the tables are turned on Shylock, Gratiano indulges in not just the usual sarcasm; he positively relishes the chance to stamp on Shylock when he's down. Shakespeare contented himself with telling us that Shylock has oft been spat upon. Here, at Shylock's last exit, we actually see Gratiano (ironic name!) spit upon the Jew-- just as, in an earlier scene, we are treated to the spectacle of seeing his fellow Jew, Tubal spat...
...central issue of the crisis is the announced determination to impose a world of coercion upon those not already subject to it ... it is posed between the Sino-Soviet empire and all the rest, whether allied or neutral; and it is posed on every continent...
...present their responses and non-responses that those who disagree -- you and I and our friends -- are left well out on a limb. If we can have negotiations on equitable terms, that much to be desired. And the hope that this will be possible justifies the emphasis placed upon it in the title of this organization and by all here assembled. But there must be something more...