Word: factotum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City master builder Robert Moses. The Power Broker is an obligatory book for understanding modern urban politics. In turning to L.B.J., Caro shifted his focus from how New York City works to what makes the nation run. The answer is not surprising. As Franklin Roosevelt's factotum Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran responded when Caro asked how the young L.B.J. gained power, "Money, kid. But you'll never be able to write about...
...native London for good. He visits his longtime friend Severus Egg, "the last of the romantic poets," who retains a malicious wit and the conviction, in his mid-70s, that "I have survived into the era of the goody-goodies." Egg, naturally, has a black valet and factotum named Bacon...
...smoother, thinner, sharper replica of his father, with the same impressive forehead, the same strong, straight nose apostrophizing the same set jaw and pronounced chin." Through his 20s, the younger Franklin is an almost biblical son, honoring his father, serving as lab assistant, aide-de-camp, courier, legal factotum, confidential secretary, bodyguard and chief military adviser. The two are closest during the French and Indian War (1754-60), when they jointly conceive the idea of gaining title for themselves to fertile lands west of the Appalachians...
...father William was a frequent gambler and political factotum from the capital's North End, the textures and tones of which fill all of Kennedy's work...
...lived in it for close on 30 years, acquiring more rooms, filling them up. By now it is the hive of the queen bee, where Nevelson presides over a small force of workers: carpentry and joinery assistants who help with the sculpture, and her archivist, friend, photographer and general factotum Diana MacKown. Nevelson still leaves it often enough to be a near legendary sight in Manhattan's galleries and shops, and an enduring staple in the pages of Women's Wear Daily. She likes to swathe herself in costume and go to parties; she dislikes cooking for herself...