Word: summon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gruesome going-over. Masters' headmaster participates in creative play with his assistant's wife, the kiddies express themselves by plotting blackmail and even murder, and a member of the staff releases inhibitions by decapitating cats. Masters too often manufactures sensations instead of making sense, but he can summon remarkable talents for projecting character and transmitting an atmosphere of educational gothic...
...socialist mythology, the masses, not the individual, were regarded as heroic. In literature, the non-hero took over. He thrives in the U.S. today in the hands of such writers as Saul Bellow-whose Herzog has his great moment at the end of the book when he manages to summon enough strength to tell his cleaning woman to sweep the kitchen. Other literary "heroes" are fall guys, incipient madmen, badgered Everymen, victims. Their motto, says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith, seems to be, "Call me schlemiel." In more mundane life, there is much revulsion against the pose...
...apples?" That one floored Heavyweight Cassius Clay, 23, and after he'd taken the count on two Army aptitude tests, the U.S. declared that the champion just wasn't bright enough to fight. Now Colonel Everette Stephenson, director of Selective Service in Kentucky, will "more than likely" summon Clay for another round of brain crushers. Meantime the champ won another kind of split decision. He got a Miami divorce from his wife Sonji because her slacks were too tight and her makeup too much for his Muslim eye, but was ordered to pay $1,200 a month...
...cathedral in Basle, France's Jean Jaurès faced 555 fellow Socialists of 23 nations, gathered to demonstrate the supposed unity of the world's workers against war. The tolling of church bells reminded Jaurès of Schiller's Song of the Bells: "I summon the living, I mourn the dead, I break the furnaces." Cried Jaurès: "I call on the living that they may defend themselves from the monster who appears on the horizon. I weep for the countless dead now rotting in the East. I will break the thunderbolts...
Qualified faculty members are often reluctant to shoulder the burden of entertaining, counseling and administration which masterships entail. Men like Hersey, who can summon the power of the artist, reporter, and statesman into the kingdom of the teacher might pump a little new life into the House system. We hope that the University will consider appointing such men, perhaps on a one-year basis, when masterships open in the coming year. The idea is worthy of experiment...