Word: summon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been better cushioned than that of any President preceding him. A small Huey turbo helicopter and an Air Force crew are at his disposal. His teak-paneled office in Austin is the same one he used as President, with phones wherever convenient and a button marked "Galley" to summon a Fresca or a milk shake. A special allowance of $375,000 will cover the cost of transition, including the hiring of clerks to answer the hundreds of letters that continue to pour in. As a former President, Johnson has a pension of $25,000 a year, an $80,000 office...
...which Picasso addressed himself. At a time of life when sex is little more than a dim memory for most men, he was lustily scratching out on copper one erotic scene after another, never hesitating to boldly gouge a representation of himself into the action. Not once did he summon a model-his incredible visual memory or imagination seemed capable of producing any variant of pose or coupled posture...
Every new President basks in a rebirth of American hope, a resurgent faith that new men, with new perceptions, can summon the nation to greatness. In one sense, that hope is well justified in the case of Richard Nixon: he comes to power when the war in Viet Nam may finally be ending; today, Americans are generally agreed that the nation's resources must, as far as possible, be reallocated toward resolving its domestic ills...
...common folk that his contemporaries once found them. Perhaps appropriately-for he wrote with a cinematic clarity-Steinbeck's vision of America is most frequently glimpsed today in late-show reruns of The Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden. His literary heritage has been to summon up a sort of vivid, brittle nostalgia, and one tends to read his books now with the same bemused affection with which one watches the old Henry Fonda version of Grapes. It was precisely this quality of painful and wistful tenderness that Bonnie and Clyde conjured up in its visions, shot through...
Klein will need to summon all his strength as a newsman and as an editor to make his new job work. For his protestations of probity last week will undoubtedly be replayed to him the moment the new Administration gets caught in even the most trivial shading, inflation or seeming suppression of the facts...