Search Details

Word: summonsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Much of the party simply cannot take Carter at face value. Show-biz analogies are reached for to define him. His frequent references to love remind derisive critics of that 1930s musical Of Thee I Sing, in which Presidential Candidate Wintergreen croons that "love is sweeping the country." To others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Jimmy Carter: Not Just Peanuts | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

After eleven years of marriage, he still senses distance between them, and Sara is an achingly desperate attempt to connect back up with her as a woman. He summons up memories of their children playing on the beach as babies, for it's through them that he feels closest to...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: To the Valley Below | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

The end of a bad year also summons up thoughts about where institutions are heading. I note with approval the spread of an apresnous-le-deluge attitude toward life, at least among those segments of the undergraduate body not paralyzed by sugar plum visions of stethoscopes. The tumbrils of '69...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: The New Gotha Programme | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

The Californian held off on his campaign announcement for months. He did a lot of relaxing at his 620-acre ranch near Santa Barbara, grooming his two thoroughbred horses, remodeling his adobe ranch house and acting the part of a disinterested citizen awaiting a summons to national service. The stance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: THE STAR SHAKES UP THE PARTY | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

In the days of Louis XIV, a summons to the King's court brought the men and women of consequence tumbling out of the boudoirs and the countinghouses and off the battlefields for the required rituals of obeisance and jollity that the Sun King needed for self-assurance. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Subtle Joys of Being in the Court | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

Previous | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | Next