Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thoughts are not new and the writing familiar, it does not speak ill of the occasion or the agency which produced them. A magazine which can summon these people to a command performance can perhaps find the talent to keep up its tradition, and, hopefully...
Reverend George A. Buttrick, Chairman of the Board of Preachers, said yesterday that he might summon a special session of the PBH Association Committee, an alumni group, to consider the question of Brooks House merger with the Radcliffe Volunteer Service Organization...
...Beyond that, it would be open to the U.S. to withdraw recognition from the Arkansas guard as a part of the federal military establishment, implying a cutoff of the $5,500,000 annual federal subsidy and a recall of federal-issue uniforms, arms and equipment. The U.S. could also summon the Arkansas guardsmen into federal service either to be dispersed or to safeguard the rights of Negro pupils to attend Little Rock Central High School. It is even open to the U.S. to send in detachments of federal troops...
...demanding title role is in the masterly hands of Barry Morse. Though still suffering on opening night from a throat and lung infection, he insisted with true Bergeracquian heroism on playing anyway. His performance certainly did not suffer, except for an occasionally gravelly voice. Morse can summon the panache, the spirit of bravura that the role requires. He becomes in turn all the things that make up Cyrano's character--braggadocio, courageous soldier, learned wit, testy quarreler, gallant lover, poetic lyricist, resigned indigent, noble altruist and pathetic but proud moribund. He gets a lot of variety out of his famous...
...known all along: his Fifth Amendment appearances before the McClellan Senate investigating committee had done him in as president of the 1,400,000-member Teamsters Union. After a secret meeting with Teamster vice presidents last week, Beck announced he would retire in September. Dave also announced he would summon an executive board meeting in mid-June, raised the interesting possibility that he might step down even before September...