Word: summoners
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These memories are not always happy, of course. One person may remember only that in the first grade he thought the books of the Bible were named after four odiously well-behaved Sunday school classmates named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. A second can still summon up the sense of majesty and magic that came upon first hearing of the escape from Egypt and the miracle of the loaves and the fishes. William Willimon, now teaching at Duke University's divinity school, fondly looks back on a "church that still believed that Christians were made, not born, and that...
...rebellious delegate-for instance, a Carter delegate who wants to vote for Kennedy-could be replaced "at any time up to and including the presidential balloting." In practice, this would mean that the state delegation's chairman, or an emissary for Carter, would disenfranchise the rebel and summon an alternate...
There is, of course, Manhattan's 175-room Carlyle, where a regular patron's tastes-in marmalade or Matisse-are faithfully recorded and indulged on each visit. San Diego's 223-room Westgate will summon private butlers if desired. New Orleans offers the 100-room, family-run Pontchartrain Hotel, with one of the country's best Creole restaurants. Boston's pride is the 257-room Ritz-Carlton, where a houseman will lay a fire in one's suite to soften the shock of a New England winter...
...thud which sounded like a stone hitting the windshield." This may have been the sound of Jordan slumping against the car. "Help me, I've been shot!" he cried. When she saw him wounded and bleeding, she dashed inside the motel and asked the desk clerk to summon police and an ambulance. Then she called her lawyer...
This disorientation is reinforced by one of the strong elements in the production, the sets. They are fashioned with billowing flair by PierLuigi Samaritani and meticulously painted in Italy. Samaritani is experienced in designing sets for operas. His visions gloriously summon up the richness of legendary India, but sometimes overpower delicate, intricate movements. In scale and detail they seem more suited to leisurely appreciation during a long aria...