Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ponds, worshiped in barns and shacks, staged hell-raising, Bible-banging revivals in tents and private homes. Clapboard churches, throughout the South and Southwest, became the architectural landmark of the Baptist advance for nearly a century. Any man who heard the call was encouraged to grasp a Bible and summon a crowd...
...than blues), Farrell displays many of the qualities that shine forth on the concert stage: the easy flexibility, the tonal purity, the subtle sense of pitch that enables her to put her voice within the heart of every tone. The selections scarcely call for her full power, but they summon humor, a swinging beat and dramatic conviction. As Farrell alternately becomes the raucously betrayed woman (Blues In the Night), the languorous lady of experience (Old Devil Moon), the world-weary floozy (Ten Cents a Dance), even the weariest lines emerge fresh and endlessly inventive. If she ever quits serious music...
...successful, is calculated to make the Cyrano de Berge-racs of the arts feel that it is not just their noses but their swords that are comic. The true parodist must do more than spoof superficial oddities and quirks of style; he must reach the deeper eccentricities of attitude, summon the author's familiar spirit and transform it into a Halloween mask...
...pass over the Soviet Union. After two days, it lost radio contact with earth. But even in its silence it spun through the sky as the prototype of a complete Midas system, scheduled for operation in 1963, that in its ability to sound an alarm and to summon retaliatory forces, should become a new and powerful deterrent against surprise attack. And most of all, Midas II was a dramatic symbol of the U.S.'s successful surge into space...
...have little hope for any of the plans. He seemed resigned to playing out his role of martyr to capital punishment. Standing at the barred door of his cell after he got the expected news that the judiciary committee had blocked Brown's proposal, Chessman managed to summon a wry smile. "I have had nine execution dates, and have been spared eight times," he said. "I do not want to be credited with more lives than...