Word: upon
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Though Oriol knew she wanted to be a doctor eventually, her plans upon graduation from Boston University in 1967 did not involve medical school. Because Oriol's father died early in her undergraduate years, she had to shorten her time as a student to be able to pay for her tuition. After finishing college in three years, Oriol confesses, "I was tired and I knew I wouldn't be a good student...
...Upon returning, I was reminded of the beauty in the built landscape of my home. Think about daily life here. Notice the hollyberry bushes in the Winthrop courtyard or the chokecherry tree in the Dunster one. Next time, while walking to dinner at Lowell Dining Hall, glimpse the beautiful Christmas tree in one the rooms just to the left of the dining hall door. While it is sometimes inconvenient to take pause, how much more spontaneous and rewarding are our days in light of the dapples of humanity we can witness...
...recognition for his effort and the background position he was forced to occupy while "I had friends who were in front of juries every day in the District Attorney's Office." He writes, "I did not want to practice law where form swallowed substance, where responsibility was bestowed upon associates in dribbles." So he left...
...dancers seemed to have a good grasp of the choreography and danced with unwavering energy and confidence. Each piece they danced differed so vastly that it was impossible to identify the "typical Harvard-Radcliffe dance style", what the directors and choreographers must have impressed upon all of their dancers, and what the dancers must have innately felt, is a strong sense of stage presence and confidence...
...treatment of Christmas, a holiday so over-wrought with symbolism that any statement can seem trite. O'Donnell couples Tad's cynicism and mocking attitude with an underlying sense of hope and faith in the holiday. Tad is aware of the fake forms Christmas can take on; upon walking into his brother and sister-in-law's showcase of a home, he observes that "the impersonally tasteful X'mas tree Bonny had set up was an X'mas tree, not a Christmas tree...