Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Geoffrey Stevens, a data clerk in Whitla's office, said yesterday that 150 of the invited students have agreed to take the tests, adding that he hopes twice that many will sign up before Monday afternoon's deadline...
...council postponed action on rezoning a section of Agassiz north of the Law School because the city clerk had not asked for opinions from the city solicitor on the legality of the move...
...rape situations as Thompson and Medea describe them. The women is in a place that the man feels makes her open for some sort of attack (the man shouting obscene comments at the woman in the street would not behave the same way, for example, were she a clerk in a store or his family physician). And the women refuses to believe that this behavior is threatening to her, or refuses to make a scene...
Much of the dialogue reads like a litany of liberation. Lines like "Why can't you be like other mothers" and "Don't go to college--get a job as a clerk, you'll meet a nice man..." wash over us with the indistinct familiarity of a TV ad we've heard a hundred times. It is obvious why this is not good theater: the characters are merely pasteboard stand-ins for the absent playwright. And while it may be less obvious, it is equally true that neither is this good politics. Rather than bring us closer to the truth...
Officious Clerk. Above all, The Palace Guard tells precisely how H.R. Haldeman, clearly the villain of the book, schemed to silence or neutralize the voices of moderation and close the Oval Office door to all but his own favorites. At first, say Rather and Gates, Haldeman tentatively tested his influence by telling Burns to leave a note, rather than re-enter Nixon's office to deliver an afterthought. The dignified Burns considered it unseemly to argue with this "officious clerk"-and Haldeman was emboldened. When he personally pulled his U.C.L.A. classmate, fellow Eagle Scout and prot...