Word: upon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guilty ... guilty ..." In the rear of the court, Bundy's mother Louise slumped in the arms of a friend. "It's just all wrong," said Louise Bundy. "There will be appeal upon appeal...
...published a 38-page Special Section on leadership. The world's problems, TIME said, often seemed to be overwhelming the capacity of leaders to deal with them. For its special section, TIME assembled a list of 200 young (45 or under) Americans who already were having a positive impact upon society and who might play pivotal roles in the nation's future. Today, the issue of leadership is more acute than ever. As Jimmy Carter struggles to rally a nation troubled by recession, inflation and the energy shortage, TIME again examines the problems of leaders?and followers. In these pages...
...time since World War II, the occasion has called for leadership. It was said of Napoleon that he "could look upon a battle scene of unimaginable disorder and see its coherence for his own advantage." In the first 30 months of his presidency, Carter has appeared able to see only unimaginable disorder, which until recently tended to send him niggling after details...
...Despite his admirable efforts in the Middle East, on the Panama Canal, in the SALT negotiations, in human rights, Carter has not been able to find within himself the passion, the spiritual heat, to inspire. He still gazes out upon his fractious and occasionally ungovernable countrymen with wondering ice-blue eyes too often predisposed to see the small picture...
...Greece, the land of Homer, men classically reach immortality not by living a Christian life and going to Heaven, but through kleos, the everlasting glory conferred on men through poetry, heroic actions, and the telling of tales. They become, in effect, the defeaters of The theme is enlarged upon until finally, the boy, almost grown, decides, all "stories are good. Even if a story is about death, it's a good story. But death itself is not, there is no death that's a noble death...