Young women in swimming trunks and bikini tops swaggered along the water, some tossing footballs back and forth, "doing their community service," as one friend of mine used to quip, so the rest of us could watch their impressive shoulders and forearms in action, invitations for later on, if you had the chutzpah and charm to approach.
Who can forget some of its chapter mottoes, from Wordsworth, de Tocqueville, Arnold and "Schnozzle" Durante, and the chapter titles Unbending the Springs of Action and Invitations to a Candy-Floss World?
In December 1900, Stoke Town Council proposed a meeting with "a view to federal action" and issued invitations to the boroughs of Hanley, Stoke, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Longton, and Burslem, the urban districts of Fenton, Tunstall, Audley, Kidsgrove, and Smallthorne, the rural districts of Stoke and Wolstanton.
Joseph M. McShane, said in a statement that Sister Johnson is a "revered member of the Fordham community," who regards the bishops' action as "an invitation to dialogue".
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We followed this invitation to action with a simple random sample of 400 respondents who received an additional email encouraging them to respond to the survey.
"This compilation is a call-to-action, and an invitation to be aware of the organizations and communities which have been active in a struggle for equality and aid for years.
Finally, the power of talk highlights the importance of providing external (social) cues to action in addition to routine invitations and reminders.
The process reminded many of us of the way Native American elders were said to go about reaching decisions: 'Talk and talk until the talk begins.' 1 And importantly, we recognised both explicit and implicit invitations to take action, as we probed the various ways in which people could build on and use such knowledge.
Instead, the article advocates a phenomenological approach that retains Gibson's direct realism, but adds concern for the so-called invitation character (Aufforderungscharakter) of affordances: Affordances do not simply offer a range of action possibilities; they actively invite certain actions.
In May, Bill McKibben wrote an article in Rolling Stone, "A Call to Arms: An Invitation to Demand Action on Climate Change," which laid some of the groundwork for this weekend's events.
