Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning after the Inauguration, Roosevelt ate an early Sunday breakfast, then had himself wheeled into the Oval Office to get his New Deal under way. In the vacated presidential desk he could find neither a pencil nor a pad of paper. He could find no buzzer with which to summon an aide. He paused for an echoing moment in this vacuum of power, then threw back his head and shouted until a secretary came running...
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Deutsche Grammophon, 2 LPs). Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic summon the otherworldliness of Mahler's last completed symphony...
...favor American action to end its own repression. Indeed, it seems to us that cleaning our own hands will make us much more effective at pressuring others. If our allies and the non-aligned nations see us practicing in El Salvador what we preach in Poland, then they may summon the courage to back our efforts elsewhere. At the very least, we would rob the Soviets of their most powerful--and most correct--propaganda weapon: that we are often as bad as they...
...white clapboard mansion on Lowell Street in Cambridge. Always a gathering place for diverse individuals, the Bernays home is like a laboratory for experimentation in the theory of democratic pluralism. Bernays and his "twenty-four hour a day companion in married life," the late Doris Fleischman, would summon at once "a union head, a colonel in the army, the editor of a left-to-center paper and an artist." "Conformity is a sin," according to Bernays, "even at parties...
...issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Stockman was quoted as saying some most indiscreet things about the Administration's entire approach to budget balancing and tax cutting. Suddenly, the architect of Reaganomics was in danger of being fired. And for the second time in two weeks, Reagan had to summon a top aide to the White House for a stern presidential scolding...