Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statements reveal much about a classmate's views of a particular problem but they do little to further academic dialogue and can be lethal to informed and penetrating scholarly inquiry. When students simply impose their favored narrow lens upon the subject instead of remarking insightfully about the shared text, they bring discussion to a halt. While lively and penetrating debates can be had about interpretation of the literature or theoretical arguments studied in class, it is nearly impossible to take issue with an X, Y statement, making them somewhat attractive to practitioners but unhelpful to anyone's intellectual growth...
...certainly, to take Kelly's eye out of his paintings would be to inflict death upon the very soul of his work--"I'm very interested in the measure of color (form and line as well)...color changes so subtly." For Kelly, the world is just "a bunch of fragmentation," a space defined thoroughly by perception. He has trained his eyes to detect the slices of everyday life that might elude other. At age 12, Kelly remembers walking by a window, a ready-made frame, which enclosed what appeared to him to be three colored, abstracted shapes. Intrigued, he approached...
When Yussele returns to his village, he finds his childhood sweetheart has married a rich widower in his absence. Still wedded to his own rich widow, he tries to win Esther back, but she has decided upon a life of misery. Despondent, Yussele finally goes...
...sights on, so I cursed and kicked the machine. Our evening had been full to the brim with Somerville-style amusement, and we unanimously agreed to call it a night. Finding a taxi took ample effort, but after trekking a block and scaling a snow bank, we came upon the comforting sight of yellow checkers...
...sights on, so I cursed and kicked the machine. Our evening had been full to the brim with Somerville-style amusement, and we unanimously agreed to call it a night. Finding a taxi took ample effort, but after trekking a block and scaling a snow bank, we came upon the comforting sight of yellow checkers...