Word: summonings
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Towards the end of their feature, the three describe the type of person college breeds. "Who but soigne college graduates could summon the requisite poise to carry on an extemporaneous discussion of Marxian dialectics, gesticulate emphatically with a lit cigarette (preferably a Sobranie Black Russian), and punctuate his remarks with a polite sip from his drink (Wild Turkey on the rocks or some Pernod)?" they...
Sometimes she signs her mail in the Treaty Room on the massive dark walnut table that was Ulysses S. Grant's. There she feels the White House spell the most. If she could summon back scenes from other eras, she would like to see the men gathered there...
...summon up the courage to walk out and go live by yourself? Where did you spend your nights? Who gave you the idea of asking Monsieur Bernheim...
...this charnel house, the kind of madness that Pasqualino perpetrated on a smaller scale becomes massive. To stay alive, Pasqualino must summon up his last reserves of cunning. In one horrible, hilarious sequence, he tries to worm his way into the good graces of the female camp commandant (Shirley Stoler) by making love to her. She is a lesbian leviathan who tolerates his attentions only because of his very desperation. She uses his appetite for life to debase him, and he allows it. He even agrees to preside over the execution of fellow prisoners. All for survival...
...corruption, political assassination, terrorist armies, atomic holocaust and pay toilets do human beings feel a longing to be scared out of their skins? What is this perverse allure of the horrible that in all ages and nations has made men sit at the feet of the taleteller who can summon adrenalin with shadow dangers...