Word: summoner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only a few hundred refugees each day summon up the courage to leave the festering camps in Zaire to head the other way. Whatever might be happening out in the countryside, the trickle of Rwandans who reach Kigali enter a city of eerie quiet. Fewer than 100,000 of the 350,000 people who lived in the capital four months ago are there now. There is no electricity, no phone service, only partial water supply. Businesses and factories are shuttered...
...winces not," Du Bois wrote. "Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in glided halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn or condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil...
...earlier by skating weak short programs. But experience still counts: each was able to draw on reserves of seasoning in international competition to deliver a smooth, clean long routine. They placed fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively. That kind of finesse was what U.S. champion Scott Davis, 22, could not summon. Nervous and spill-prone, he wound up eighth...
...catch a sense of Crichton, one must summon other failed physicians who ^ turned to fiction, though failed, perhaps, is the wrong word. Conan Doyle. More recently, Walker Percy. In The Moviegoer, Percy wrote of "the search." What's the search? Well, you poke about the neighborhood and don't miss a trick. Somehow, it all has to do with novelists trained in the field of science, men like Crichton who found science too unimaginative...
...eyes of traditional church leaders, the popular authors who render angels into household pets, who invite readers to get in touch with their inner angel, or summon their own "angel psychotherapist," or view themselves as angels in training are trafficking in discount spirituality. And the churches are at a loss for a response. "What's troubling is that many religious leaders today acknowledge this but don't know what to do about it," admits George Landes, professor of Old Testament at Union Theological , Seminary. "They remain skeptical of the extravagance of angelology but don't know what...