I just had never been called upon to think about this before.
We should not be called upon to think at an art show.
Yet even if we are not called upon to think through our options in all situations, and even if sometimes it would be positively better if we did not, still, if we are called upon to do so, then we should conduct our thinking responsibly: we should reason.
Recalling her book "New Green World," about the botanist John Bartram, she says: "The times called forth originality, courted diversity, called upon men to think and roam and to stand up for their conclusions.
At another election, he called upon them to think no more of party, which was but a miserable bone of contention thrown amongst them to distract their attention, whilst somebody else was running away with all that was worth contending for.
Auditors could be called upon to specify where they thought fraud was most likely in a given company or industry, and what they did to confront the risk.
Statements by judges on issues they might be called upon to decide were generally thought to violate codes of judicial ethics before that decision.
Trotsky held that "the domain of art is not one in which the Party is called upon to command," but Stalin thought otherwise, and by the mid-1930s matters of artistic style and technique were under the thumb of bureaucratic control.
Do you think that that's something that increasingly is going to be called upon for us to do? EE: I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us.
When asked about this claim, Tranchemontagne — who says the goal is to network with community leaders and organizers — said it was a concerted effort: "Well there was certainly some collaboration with the mayor but I think everyone was called upon to contribute," he said.
I know it's a little early to be thinking about Season 2 of "Smash," but do you think you could be called upon to perform another number or two next year?
