Word: hotspur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call spirits from the vasty deep," boasts Glendower in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, to which Hotspur sensibly replies, "Why, so can I, or so can any man: But will they come when you do call for them?" Not always, certainly. But often enough to endow American art with the means of expressing something that lies deep under the traditional materialism of American life...