Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Victorian diction has imposed its own restraints, as exemplified by such pronouncements as: "I am heartsick that there may well be those persons of the masculine gender, who, lacking an intrinsic purity of character, may, by laborious effort, and much unseemly exercise of the lower ranges of the imagination, summon forth a prurient gratification, from these hapless pages...
...regard Avery as a potentially abstract painter who could not quite summon up the courage to drop content was one of the minor illusions of the '60s. Avery was uncompromisingly a figurative artist, like his mentors: Matisse and to some extent Picasso in Europe, and in America such painters as Ryder (with his visionary seascapes) and Twachtman. What his best works offer is a very American sense of Arcadia, a hard-won paradise of the natural world reconstructed in terms of color. Shape is reduced to the minimum: some flat silhouettes, relatively little internal texture...
...moment of pride for Texas, or for Republican Governor William Clements, who is in the midst of a tough re-election fight. Growing layoffs have brought the state unemployment compensation fund to the edge of bankruptcy. Clements last week was forced to summon a special session of the legislature to bail out the fund. After two days of partisan debate, both senate and house passed a measure authorizing the state to borrow up to $350 million (at 10% interest) from the federal Unemployment Trust Fund. The legislative package will also require employers to increase their contributions to the fund...
...building permit procedures and agricultural laws. Bank managers at Crédit Agricole, a financial institution specializing in agricultural loans, can use 24 terminals in Brittany to look at the names, addresses and accounts of all their clients. In Grenoble and Nantes, users can tap two municipal terminals to summon information about military service, student fellowships and job openings. In Paris, 120 hotels offer their guests 4,500 pages of electronic information, ranging from gastronomic advice to the latest stock market quotes. Next year major informatique programs are scheduled to begin in Amiens, Lille and Nancy...
Whether Reagan and Congress can summon the will to make such supremely difficult choices is problematic. Reagan has rebuffed all suggestions for slower defense spending increases, to the dismay of some in his own Administration. In an inter view with the Associated Press that was released as his resignation be came effective last week, Murray Weidenbaum, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, charged that increases in military spending have fully offset all Reagan's cuts in civilian programs. Said Weidenbaum: "On balance, we really haven't cut the budget. When you add that [defense spending...