Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blind Date, Kosinski constructs one moral dilemma after another. One particularly gruesome scene depicts Levanter seeking vengeance against a hotel clerk, whose betrayal of one of Levanter's Eastern European friends to the secret police resulted in the brutal crippling of his friend. Levanter lures the clerk to a sauna, knocks him unconscious, then unflinchingly shoves a saber up his rectum. While Kosinski says he himself would not have killed the clerk, making Levanter perform that act confronts the reader with the question: at what moment should life be spared. "The act generates respect for life even though...
...also the top fundraiser. As of October 31, according to the city clerk's records, Sullivan had raised $10,905 for his re-election campaign--more than twice as much as any other candidate...
...assistant clerk of courts at the Middlesex Court House (his brother is clerk), Sullivan knows a lot of lawyers. They contribute significant amounts to his campaign; some speculate they do so in part because of the clerk's influence in scheduling cases...
...Boston-area lawyer who has tried cases in several district and superior courts, and who asked not to be identified, said yesterday, "This applies to every court, you know, the buddy system." His description of the clerk's powers was the same as Burke...
Lawrence Frisoli, a council candidate, did not file a campaign report before the October 31 deadline. He said Wednesday his campaign treasurer has had heart trouble recently and he does not have access to all the required information. Joseph E. Connartin, deputy city clerk, said Wednesday Frisoli had committed "a technical violation of the law," but added that he doubted the state would take legal action