Word: summonings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the contents of the report prepared for Gordon have not been made public. The Crimson has learned that the collapse was blamed on a sunlight-weakened seam and the failure of an alarm system to summon an engineer when the winds reached gale force...
Later during the meeting Ehrlichman suggests that the President summon Mitchell to the Oval Office "as the provable wrongdoer" and tell him: "My God, I've got a report here. And it's clear from this report that you are guilty as hell. Now, John, for [expletive deleted] sake go on in there and do what you should. And let's get this thing cleared up and get it off the country's back and move on." Haldeman is enthusiastic about that scenario. "That's the only way to beat it now," he says. By then Nixon is in agreement...
...suddenly from one character to the next; punctuation is abandoned; there is no coherent sequence of time and events. One of the most unique elements of the novel is the elaborate stream of consciousness Joyce infuses into Stephen Dedalus and Leopold and Molly Bloom--even the slightest external stimuli summon up old memories, excite new thoughts, and create wild patterns of free association...
...wants to be an artist, makes the big break for dignity and free dom. Another, who wants to write, can not summon up that last demanding ounce of courage. That is about all there is to the plot, and it is not really enough...
...side of the business, becoming a vice president in 1956 and a senior vice president in 1964. A towering 6 ft. 4 in., he strides through the agency halls at a lope, dropping in on creative and ac count people; he would rather see them in their offices than summon them...