Word: factotum
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Adam I. Arenson '00-'01 is a history and literature concentrator in Lowell House. This summer he is a factotum ("one who does everything") for a Telluride Association Summer Program at Cornell University in Ithaca...
CLERICAL TEMP OF THE YEAR: White House factotum Craig ("Who hired this guy?") Livingstone, of Filegate...
...Vice President. When he relieved himself in the bushes, I stepped up alongside and did the same, even though we caddies were supposed to go off separately or wait until we got back to the bench area.") A month later Buchanan was newly installed as Nixon's young factotum, writing speeches, preparing briefing books, supervising the In box, all in preparation for Nixon's presidential run two years later. Nixon became a political father to Buchanan, manipulative rather than autocratic, shrewd rather than certain, pragmatic rather than ideological. When asked by reporters in New Hampshire last week whether...
...plane crash and a fraternity-hazing death. These two fetch up in Moat County looking into the 1965 murder of the local sheriff and the subsequent trial and conviction that put one Hillary Van Wetter on death row. The reporters hire Jack as a driver and general factotum...
...speaker is not DeLillo but his main character, Bill Gray, 63, a famously reclusive writer a la Salinger, Pynchon or B. Traven who lives in a rural hideaway somewhere within a 200-mile radius of New York City. Bill's household also includes Scott, his devoted fan, secretary, factotum and nanny; and ; Karen, a refugee from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church who once took part in an arranged group marriage of 6,500 couples...