Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commandeered by Walken's Hamlet. Chris Sarandon's Laertes has chosen to take on Hamlet's customary poetic sensibility. Sarandon displays the vocal virtues that were evident in his Prince Hal a few weeks ago. His Laertes is beautifully spoken, with plenty of variety and modulation. Yet he can summon up power when demanding of the King where his father Polonius is (even threateningly laying a sword on the King's shoulder), or when voicing his eagerness to engage Hamlet in combat. This is an unorthodox Laertes, but Sarandon has the skills to make it work. I could not help...
...protesters' eyes. Earlier, enraged members of Local 222 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union had spread nails across the highway. Then, screaming "Scab! Scab!" they threw rocks and bricks at newly hired workers trying to enter the plant. Republican Governor Charles Thone was finally forced to summon 160 National Guardsmen to aid the 100 besieged state police. It was the first time that the Guard had been mobilized since an Omaha streetcar strike...
...Queen displayed regal presence under pressure that would have impressed even her great-great-grandmother Victoria, the stoic object of seven assassination attempts over 42 years. As Elizabeth talked with Fagan, she managed to telephone the palace police switchboard twice, in a calm voice, to summon help. No one came immediately because the urgency of her situation was not realized An attendant who might have helped her was out walking the royal Corgis. She was finally saved when a maid entered the bedroom, took a stunned glance at the visitor and blurted, "Bloody hell, ma'am! What...
Unsettled by this unfavorable attention, the I.A.C.P.'s executive committee voted only to censure, not expel him. In the end, Murphy took the incident as further proof of one of his earlier volleys at the I.A.C.P.: "By your action, you summon up the image of police chiefs as members ol an inferior vocation in public service, fearful of dissent and debate and caught in a web of conformity. In this, you don't hurt Pat Murphy, but you bring ridicule to the calling of police management...
...quick to credit Washington's ominous doings with one benefit. They have focused attention on massive aid programs which--though growing at a furious rate for the last 20 years--had never before been subjected to the kind of philosophical scrutiny that its defenders have recently had to summon...