Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sandwich men, at another point, file down the street, each wearing one letter of some product's name. The last of them, looking drunk, lags behind, and with him the apostrophe-s that completed the name. The image is hilarious and it would not be excessive to call it an example of Joyce's bemused fascination with philology, his self-consciousness about language, which his own medium could not always represent so strikingly. Likewise, when Molly is contemplating the nature of males, she imagines (and we see) Leopold working some trigonometry problem on a blackboard, attired in mortarboard. He finishes...
Leaders of the protest then pushed a petition under the consulate door. The petition called on the military regime to safeguard the lives of all political prisoners, and to call an immediate election to return constitutional government to the country...
Pike explained his inability to accept traditional dogma. For example, he said, the doctrine of the Trinity is not even mentioned in the Bible -- which he called a "mishmash." The doctrine was thought up by a group of early Greek bishops, and we are asked to believe it on the Church's authority, he said. Moreover, if the doctrine of Christ's descent into hell were part of some primitive religion, he said, we would call it nonsense...
...BEARDED young militants who staff the Brooklyn office of the Congress of Racial Equality call themselves CORE's "Mau Maus." Mau Mau, in ghettoese, has long been synonymous with riot, but that's not what the angry young advocates of black power have in mind. Explains one, "We want a social and economic Mau Mau." They will get it, at least in part...
...pocket, the venal journalist, the young idealist, the Communist-turned-anti-Communist, and droves of beautiful, compliant women. Almost everyone is a villain, and Vidal seems to dislike his characters even more than the reader is bound to. The author recently observed that American politicians "create illusions and call them facts." Washington attempts to dramatize this theme, but it's all an illusion-and that's a fact...