Word: go-between
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Minor Details. In quieter publishing days before World War II, an agent was usually little more than a genteel go-between for artist and publisher. His main activities were directed not toward books, but toward magazines; they paid a set amount for each article or story, the agent got his 10% cut, and the deal was finished. Arrangements with book publishers were considered a nuisance. Paul Reynolds, 64-year-old son of the founder of the venerable Paul Reynolds agency, recalls that his father declined to represent Novelist Willa Cather because he wanted nothing to do with checking periodic royalty...
...Argentina, he dealt with Dictator Juan Peron during a period of rabid Argentine anti-Americanism, had the satisfaction of seeing him exiled. In other troubleshooting assignments, he served as a mediator between Indonesia's Sukarno and The Netherlands during the 1962 West Irian crisis and as a go-between in the Yemen controversy a year later. Most recently-and impressively-he served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States during the delicate 1965 Dominican negotiations...
...Though the U.S.'s six-year-old trade embargo remains in effect, Washington recently modified its ban on travel to Cuba and announced that U.S. citizens may now get passports to visit the island for "cultural" and business reasons-provided that the Czechoslovakian embassy, Castro's diplomatic go-between in the U.S., agrees to issue a visa...
...began its public sparring with the Kennedy Institute. From this point on, relations between the two groups deteriorated slowly but steadily. Gordon, because he was respected by both sides and because he kept certain confidences, was still able to act as a go-between. But though he frequently talked to the antagonists, he was not able to eliminate the basic conflicts...
...Schatten. Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto requires a primer course in the mythology of six cultures in order to be fathomed, moves murkily between the spirit world, the human world of an impoverished dyer and his sensuous wife (Baritone Walter Berry and Soprano Christa Ludwig), and the go-between world of an emperor and his wife (Tenor James King and Soprano Leonie Rysanek). The empress, alas, is without a shadow-she cannot bear children-and with the aid of a Mephistophelean nurse (Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis) she attempts to divest the dyer's wife of her shadow...