Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ears and himself. Charles Ives went to Yale, took some music courses but didn't like his teachers' insistence on doing things in traditional ways, continued to prefer out-of-tune psalms sung at camp meetings to romantic orchestrations played in concert halls, went out and became an insurance agent and then a partner in his own insurance agency. During the day Ives sold insurance, managed the firm, worked on a manual explaining how to induce potential customers to sit back under a barrage of "authoritative data" forcing them to acknowledge that life insurance was doing its part...
...little different in the executive branch, more different in the judiciary, and very different when one comes to the legislature. The essence of the legislative process is that there are a whole lot of people--voters--who want something good to happen. These people have a lot of agents who act in their behalf, and in the long run each agent has power only to the extent that he reflects in some effective way his constituency. That is one thing any good politician feels in his bones. He has a sense of all those people who trust and support...
...have been playing, for Cambridge, for mental health, for the reorganization of human services. I know I have been effective in proposing, testing, inquiring, communicating. In this way I have been taking part in a legitimate and indispensable process that is required equally of a citizen as a free agent and of a paid representative of any interest group. I am disturbed when I see this role smeared by the sometimes irresponsible press...
That, as it happens, is just what the Saudis did. After paying off their debts, they moved to their winter quarters at Geneva across the border from a gambling casino at Divonne-les-Bains in France. Monegasques were confident, however, that they would be back. One real estate agent reported that the Saudis had made inquiries about acquiring a pied a terre-"a large villa or a small skyscraper"-in the tiny principality...
Quinlan chose to remain under Sullivan's see; he landed in a mostly black inner-city parish in Norfolk, where he irrepressibly plans to continue as a spiritual agent provocateur...