"If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it," he wrote, "that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
A little like Carmela Soprano, Abby knows what her husband does for a living, but prefers to look the other way and push for a normal family life and upward mobility, including private schools for the two children.
In view of longer life span, upward trends in BMI in younger persons have a large potential for long-term detrimental health impact.
This is why voters stubbornly insist (by 57% to 40%) they do not favor defunding Planned Parenthood or other family planning clinics – even as the percentage of Americans identifying as pro-life ticks upward.
The word tenement brings to mind both the miseries of urban life and the upward mobility of striving immigrant masses.
But economic and social policy can make a difference nonetheless, making family life more affordable, upward mobility more likely, and employment easier to find.
In a season of haute-soap plot twists, the story of the working-class Irishman, Tom Branson, whose marriage to Lady Sybil gives him a life leap in upward mobility, is worth examining for what it says about class, then and now.
Some freshwater protozoans, especially the ciliates Spirostomum, Loxodes, and Plagiopyla, avoid unpleasant conditions, especially lack of oxygen, by abandoning their bottom-dwelling way of life and swimming upward to position themselves at a level where some oxygen is available but where they are not in direct competition with planktonic species.
Much, therefore, depends on Lovren, the discipline of the three midfielders in front of him, Steven Gerrard's reaction to what he described as "probably the worst three months of my life", the continued upward trajectory of Raheem Sterling and the business Liverpool can or cannot conduct before close of play on 1 September.
Life gradually unfolds upward to perfection (Lovejoy 1936; Mayr 1982)!
