Word: summoners
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...latest book contains two raw wills, lying as crisp and on edge as dry leaves, ready to burst into flames the moment pressure is magnified. But these particular wills belong to two people who thoroughly know their principles and their capacity for deliberate action. When the collision comes they summon up with heroic energy the grace to die well. It is that which Hemingway demanded of all his heroes, and McGuane depicts it powerfully...
...sits here now and looks out into the courtyard. The light of the sun reflects and shivers in the garden window, patterned with small panes behind his desk. The glowing space of light and warmth, along the book shelves and above the desk, summon for me a wealth of English recollections and associations, olden days in ancient places green and golden, many good hours of secure existence. I think of this also: lead-paint plaster, roach-invasion, rat-infestation of those desperate tenement-quarters on the other side of town in which 10,000 black and Puerto Rican families lead...
...resistance set off a frantic last-minute effort to find Ervin and Baker and summon them to the White House. Baker was located at a symposium in Chicago, Ervin at an airport in New Orleans. Both flew immediately to Washington. They were ushered into the Oval Office and urged by Nixon, Haig and Wright to accept the proposal...
White doesn't see McGovern's radical shift from this stance. His myopic evaluation of the campaign can be summed up in this brief passage: "Mr. McGovern persisted in the Lincolnian tradition of hoping an appeal to the better angels of people's nature might summon them to new visions; Mr. Nixon proposed to deal with Americans as they are." White thinks that if the full Watergate story had been known, the public would still have chosen Nixon. This curious thinking leads to the inevitable conclusion that the secretive Nixon and White, who ignores this man, think that the American...
...extracted from their trouble by Duke, who promises to spend more time at home in the future. Cahill is a poky, disorganized sort of western, typical of the work of Andrew V. McLaglen (The Way West, The Undefeated), a director on whom Wayne seems to call as he might summon a foreman to keep an eye on his ranch. There are a great many saddle-sore jokes but occasional nice moments too, as when Wayne buffaloes his way through a lynching party. He also spars well with the kids, and he invests an absurdly sentimental recollection of Cahill...