Word: summonings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, to take command, Arthur Goldberg came over the horizon blowing a trumpet muted with the first note that he ventured. The owlish, dignified former Supreme Court Justice, hoping that he could summon broad Democratic support to challenge Nelson Rockefeller, began his crusade instead with only a narrow primary victory. He defeated Howard Samuels, an attractive upstate plastics millionaire who has been a frequent office seeker, by 45,000 votes in an election for which only 26% of the state's enrolled Democrats roused themselves to vote. Samuels campaigned strenuously in person and spent lavishly on television. After...
...marriage was ideal; actually it was calamitous. She claims to feel love emanating from Andreas; in fact he has no conception of the term. In Rollo May's phrase, "Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is." Love's opposite is all that Andreas can summon...
...substantive sections of his book, Gardner takes up the national crises as separate problems conventionally defined−housing, transportation, environment, consumer protection. He has the faith of a reformer that the country can solve these difficulties within the tradition if only it can summon up the will−roll up its sleeves and do it: "Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess...
...people, bigots." More seriously, he strikes out against the increasing stridency and publicizing of our time, against the mentality which demands that every new work of art be apocalyptically, original, which precludes germinal innovations, and that these doomsday products shatter the benighted with all the force Madison Avenue can summon. Eventually we would need a cathedral to house properly a concert which consisted of one hundred amplifiers tidally shoring up our ruins with the unforgettably moving sound of a single human hair being twisted...
...companions placed his return to the cottage at 12:15 a.m. Gargan and Markham told almost identical stories of their return to the bridge with Kennedy, and their attempts to bring up Mary Jo. Gargan and Markham insisted that they advised Kennedy repeatedly to report the accident and summon help. By the time the trio reached the Chappaquiddick ferry landing, Kennedy seemed to agree. Believing somehow that a full explanation would send Mary Jo's girl friends down to the bridge in a fruitless?and dangerous ?attempt to dive for her themselves, Kennedy instructed Markham and Gargan...