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Word: clerkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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After post-graduate work under Professor Felix L. Frankfurter, Hart became law clerk to Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court. Except for brief periods of government service, for which he received the Presidential Certificate of Merit, Hart's career centered on the Harvard Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Faculty Loses Expert On U.S. Law | 3/25/1969 | See Source »

Myself, a postal clerk (white), sees a connection between obnoxious King Collins and obnoxious Vietnamese rebels; between your response (College, CRIMSON, quoted Cliffies) and the response of the Bundys, the Rostows. Obscene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASHED-UP BRAINS | 3/24/1969 | See Source »

...Greville Wynne in his 1967 book Contact on Gorky Street. Returning to his hotel one night, Wynne recalled, he found a "dark, smiling girl" in his bed. Forewarned by British intelligence as to what to do in such circumstances, he left the door open, ran downstairs, and told the clerk that his room had been rented to someone else by mistake. Then he went for a walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Take Her Along | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...Kisses, he is seen leaving the army after struggling to get a psychological discharge. "You can always sell ties," shrugs his commanding officer, adding hopefully: "I hope we never meet again." His girl friend's father fixes him up with a cushy job as a hotel night clerk, but Antoine gets canned when a private detective (Harry Max) makes him the dupe in a divorce case. Joining the detective's agency, Antoine spends his days clumsily shadowing suspects and his nights wooing his girl Christine (Claude Jade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Persistence of Memory | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Life, however, rejects his resurrection. He is fired from his job as a travel clerk ("Who wants their annual holiday booked by a former corpse?"), branded an anathema by society ("As long as Godfrey were to live and work among people,' each one would be faced constantly with the fact of his own death"), and even resented by his family for the inconvenience of his miracle ("We're Before and After people now," laments his wife). His life after death, not surprisingly, becomes a downhill slide: the authorities strip him of his children, his neighbors stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rejected Resurrection | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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