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...mysterious figure, something of a philosopher, and a keen observer. All he asks is a part to play, a life to live in this special world, and the right that his out world self be allowed to die. The part he chooses is humble; he becames a sort of buffer for the clowns, the one who gets slapped for the amusement of the audience; and he takes the name of "He". His own story is hinted only vaguely; but he flits on the edges of the little stories of his confreres, watches them hungrily, and finally is lost with them...
...There has now developed a cooperation between the representative, the foreman and time study department, the representative acting as a sort of buffer, showing a desire to have the work done in the quickest method and on machines that were suitable for it. We've always made them that way,' is now seldom offered as an alibi, under the close analysis given the job by the combined efforts of this cooperation...
...earn money, but the good lawyer is a peace-maker. Men come to him inflamed with passion, feeling that their rights have been trampled upon and that they must have what belongs to them at the expense perhaps of long litigation. The lawyer in the first place is a buffer, because after he has heard the story he tells them of the various steps that must be taken to assert their rights and the length of time required for each, and he makes them understand that whatever the outcome of the litigation may be, the end is not likely...
...questions, that of Armenia, was, Mr. Morgenthau declared, his chief object in coming to speak at Cambridge. He then proceeded to give a brief history of Armenia, explaining that it had suffered more than the other countries of Asia Minor during the past centuries, because it has been the buffer state between Western civilization and the invading Asiatic hordes. The last of these invaders were the Turks, who have remained, and have succeeded, after 700 years, in absorbing into their barbarism all the civilization that their conquered countries had built up for thousands of years...
...long it will remain so is another question. The country has so long been a buffer state that the European nations have come to regard it as martial currency in their diplomatic barter and trade, and may not easily break them selves of so fixed a habit. Nor is the word of Soviet Russia to be trusted implicitly. Under such conditions, and with Germany casting sheep's eyes at the port of Danzig, Poland enters upon her first peaceful and truly organized period of existence as a republic...