Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late years, Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was chatting in his studio with one of his few friends and many admirers, the English painter Walter Richard Sickert. When they decided to visit a cafe, young Sickert got ready to summon a horse-drawn cab. Degas objected. "Personally, I don't like cabs. You don't see anyone. That's why I love to ride on the omnibus -- you can look at people. We were created to look at one another, weren't we?" No passing remark could take you closer to the heart of 19th century realism: the idea...
...instance, at the end of the novel the military police summon Eva to the government headquarters to expose her anti-political activities. General Rodri-quez reveals that the government knows everything about Eva's complicity in the guerrilla affairs, but suggests that she can be redeemed if she will reveal the identities of the guerrillas in charge. His evil laugh implies that he intends to imprison the soldiers forever, but at the same time he suggests he will legalize the Communist Party and offer its members places in Congress...
...make painful reading. But Wharton's love letters are stirring in other ways. She could discreetly hint at sexual arousal intensified by social constraint: "You can't come into the room without my feeling all over me a ripple of flame." Writhing under Fullerton's sporadic indifference, she could summon up reserves of anger and pride: "What you wish, apparently, is to take of my life the inmost & uttermost that a woman -- a woman like me -- can give, for an hour, now & then, when it suits you; & when the hour is over, to leave me out of your mind...
...explanation for boxing, at least an excuse, has never been harder to summon or easier to see than it is now, simmering in the eyes of Mike Tyson. Muhammad Ali's face, when his was the face of boxing, at least had a note of humor, a hint of remorse, even the possibility of compassion, though he gave no guarantees. Tyson does: brutal, bitter ones...
...Zambia to search out a choir and found two. The Sibane Semaswati Singers and the New Generation, who show no traces of a Paul Simon-Graceland influence, are on five of the album's tracks, lending rhythmic backbone whenever Childs' writing tends too much toward the brittle. They also summon ironic memories from Childs' past, casting a kind of sanctified shadow across a childhood spent within the often unwelcome reach of the church...