Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year humanities concentrators and professors returned to a splendidly remodeled (and renamed) Barker Center for the Humanities. Upon their return this year, this same group will be treated to an equally dazzling renovation of Boylston Hall...
...Upon entering Boylston, the most noticeable change is the restructuring of the auditorium...
...what could be a portent of future doorway upgrades, the ubiquitous tentacles of University Hall descended upon K-House this summer and decreed that all door handles shall lock, even if you don't lock them...
Leading the Crimson in its pursuit are co-captains Kate Nash and Melissa Forcum. Both four-year starters will be looked upon to lead the Harvard attack...
Flatly written, with detail piling upon detail like so much slag on a heap, Maynard's memoir returns repeatedly to the idea of emotional and literary honesty. "Some day, Joyce, there will be a story you want to tell for no better reason than because it matters to you more than any other," Salinger tells her. "You'll simply write what's real and true." Maybe this is it. But where Salinger, or many a better writer, would have fictionalized his truths, opening up new universes for the reader, Maynard sheds no light on anything beyond the little spotlight...