Word: summonings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many believed that this year might well turn out to be the era-ending date when the British would summon the supreme effort to vanquish the Americans, which so far they have only been able to do on their native heath. After all, who could blame a British golfer if upon seeing the misty winds careening along the fairways that Willie Dunn laid out on Shinnecock's hills on Long Island, he mistook it for the grizzled links at Musselburgh in the Midlothian, where Dunn was born over a century...
...extract every droplet of meaning and mood his flabby creative muscles can muster. And the sluggish screenplay gives little relief. You never get the feeling that much has been lost in the translation because there isn't much to be lost in the first place. That Herzog can summon the raw nerve to inflict this unredeeming and unredeemable trash on an audience speaks volumes about what obligations he feels as an artist; that American critics pay homage to such charlatans and their non-movies says even more about the state of their art and the keenness of their judgment...
...burgeonings of the women's movement to the fashion for Portnoy's Complaint and the novels of D.H. Lawrence-and what these books suggest about contemporary sexuality. Her 1964 essay mourning the killing of John F. Kennedy best displays the author's power to summon back events. In the intensity of the national bereavement on that "pitiless weekend," she writes, "Americans moved toward each other, groping for the connection which would dispel loneliness." The hope generated by the Kennedy presidency, as Trilling accurately notes, was "acute and real ... our best educated classes would prefer to forget what...
...portable paging device about the size of a cigarette pack, the beeper is a mini-radio receiver that puts the person carrying it on instant call from of-ficerhome or anywhere else. Short-range protobeepers were used in hospitals in the early 1960s to summon doctors. Since then beepers have spread like electronic calculators-from some 33,500 in 1965 to an estimated 800,000 today, with production still growing at about 18% a year. About 500 U.S. companies now either manufacture beepers or operate beeper networks. In most systems, the caller dials a seven-digit number that feeds into...
...couples if, say, one partner has had a stroke and the other can no longer cope with the chores. A "meals-on-wheels" service, manned by volunteers-mainly from the Red Cross-delivers some 1,000 hot trays a day. If the patient needs help, the volunteer can quickly summon a nurse, social worker or the patient's family physician, who retains overall charge of the case. Says Susan Foss: "Five days a week I await the footsteps of the people from Extramural and their bright faces...