Word: liaisons
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...naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped in pecan trees from Texas for Hassan's garden, prairie dogs for the royal zoo, ten-gallon hats for Hassan's princely head. When left-wing Premier Abdallah Ibrahim protested Blair's moving into the palace as a "liaison officer.'' it cost the Premier his job. King Mohammed mournfully took over as Premier, named young Hassan as his deputy, and entrusted him with vast authority...
Nowhere will the game be played more openly than in the second-floor White House office of Larry O'Brien, special assistant to the President for liaison and personnel. In the office is a card file containing the background of every Senator and Congressman. Among the data are such items as a man's close political friends, college fraternity, his wife's maiden name, his economic and educational milieu-information that has proved invaluable in finding undreamed of ways to reach a man. A tough, candid operator. O'Brien has already talked over the President...
...group's responsibility. Phillips sees the Council as "a representative group of student opinion--not necessarily a group of representative opinion." Another officer would prefer to see the Council emphasize a role of spokesman to other colleges for the Harvard student . Deans see the Council as a student-Faculty liaison, a ready of undergraduate sentiment, a source of a new idea or two. What Council members say in their regular University Hall meetings is often accepted as the general feeling among undergraduates...
Cult of Experience. Hemingway's generation was perhaps the last to find technology romantic. There is an entire subplot liaison between Duc and his Citroën. What with cars and guns, women and wars, the Hemingway hero is always counting his good times on his fingers and telling why they went bad. The great good time in 20th century fiction, and the origin of the fête idea, was the three-day fiesta of the running of the bulls at Pamplona in The Sun Also Rises. Fetes end, Due tells himself, when there is a fall from...
When she said this, the old man was silent for a minute. Then he broke into a roar of laughter." The clan was enchanted with Jackie's thoughtful Christmas gifts-beautifully bound books, her own bright, primitive paintings (executed in a manner that suggests a liaison between Raoul Dufy and Grandma Moses)-and soon stood in awe of her because she had the stamina to stand up for her own tastes. "They seem proud if I read more books, and of the things I do differently. The very things you think would alienate them bring you closer to them...