Word: errand
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...week long, Moore had talked like a goateed tiger. He was fighting for pay, he reminded everyone in earshot, when this untutored upstart Patterson was still in short pants. Moore was "not without pity" for the kid, but they had sent a boy on a man's errand...
...prize-winning ($25) story, Errand of Mercy by Raymond Medeiros, is a skillful and well-sustained account of a homosexual's encounter with a young Swedish sailor. Medeiros knows how to write: he tells a story without showing it, so that each sentence is more a discover than a lesson. Without going beyond the homosexual's own reactions, Medeiros gets a convincing sense of the Boston streets through which they are walking and shows how the man is fooling himself about the sailor...
Michael Wolfert's A Party of Prophets at Cambridge is not so finished as Errand of Mercy but more ambitious, it could be a much longer story. As the main character, George, is preparing a party, the story flashes back with his thoughts to his girl and to his own home; and then more flash-backs are set off against some really funny torrents of "intellectual conversation." Unlike most of The Advocate's selections for the year, this story has something to say that is as notable as its author's technical competence. The structure is sometimes confusing...
...precinct meetings, where victory would give control of the county and state conventions. Shivers campaigned wildly, nailing about on all sides. Johnson, he cried, was "vain, ambitious and vicious," and was "playing footsie" with left-wingers to boot. The issue was whether the Texas delegation would become one "of errand boys bound body and soul in advance to deliver the Texas votes whenever and where Mr. Sam decrees...
...directs a dedicated army of 800,000 followers from Calais to Algiers. By lifting a phone, he can organize a rally in a provincial town 400 miles away, have the region plastered with posters in 48 hours, dispatch two, ten or 20 Assembly Deputies there as if they were errand boys. Every day, new memberships pour into his new offices in downtown Paris, new readers subscribe to his two newspapers...