Word: harrison
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...making the bureaucracy bigger than ever. This week, however, Carter unveils a new pro gram that promises the first comprehensive reform of the civil service since it was established 95 years ago in place of the politically dominated spoils system. The program, says Carter's reorganization chief, Harrison Wellford, will "put the work ethic back into public service." Managers will be able to hire, fire and transfer personnel more easily and offer cash incentives for good work. Given Carter's track record, there is no telling how hard he will push his proposal. It is equally uncertain...
...grandfather, John Watson Foster, was Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison. An uncle, Robert M. Lansing, became Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. The children, whose father was a Presbyterian minister in upstate New York, enjoyed a vaguely Kennedyesque upbringing that taught them sailing on Lake Ontario, the endurance of cold morning showers and furiously intense sibling competition. Foster, the eldest of the five children, was the foremost of the group, grave and sententious; he quoted William James at the age of ten. Allen, four years younger, was Byronically romantic and found a place for his temperament in intelligence...
Your comment that I have "far more clout" as ranking minority member on the Senate Human Resources Committee than the committee's chairman, Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. of New Jersey, is wrong and misleading...
Guitarist-keyboard player Jerry Harrison joins with Byrne to handle the guitar work, which is spare and economical to suit the New Wave fashion. Nobody stretches out for a solo on this record; the effect is to provide a tight ensemble sound to back the eccentric Byrne's lyrics. The music is danceable and listenable without being hard on the ears, but it isn't all that exciting. It reminds the listener of the blander moments of the new Steely Dan record, but with much sparer instrumentation...
...long, gangling figure springing about beneath a jolly mop of brown hair. Best is his voice, which he uses like a virtuoso, rasping out some lines, snarling others like Burgess Meredith, or shooting up into a terribly British falsetto a la Rex Harrison. He conveys the tremendous nervous energy trapped inside him, which, unable to escape, manufactures a haggard lethargy; but here again the production seems unsettlingly close-to-life: Is it Simon Bruhl feverishly bored by the drying up of his creative juices, or John Wood feverishly bored by the obviousness of his role...