Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flown by the Air Force to any nation seeking help. China has already agreed to receive such a team if Skylab wreaks havoc there. The Russians, on the other hand, have rejected the offer. "We are responsible at law; there is no question about that," concedes one NASA lawyer...
...York, Alda sets out to block the Supreme Court appointment of a flagrant racist. Well and good, and done with exceptional verity as a result of Alda's research on Capitol Hill. But Tynan gets sidetracked by some unexpected motions. Waylaid by Meryl Streep, as an activist lawyer, he ends up in bed with her, swilling beer and swapping cloakroom stories...
Graham Greene once noted with pride that a novelist has "a splinter of ice in the heart." In Testimony and Demeanor Casey demonstrates what one of his characters calls a "lawyer-like habit of being an objective observer in the vortex of other people's passions." Casey is not proud of his cold eye, however. Most of these stories are threaded by the narrator's regret about his role as watcher in the shallows...
...college wrestler is given brief command of his squad during his own basic training and learns that trying to be fair is a kind of condescension. A sophisticated Eastern writing teacher plays Pygmalion to a gifted but corn-fed coed in Iowa. A stoic, weanling New York lawyer is gently and blessedly maneuvered into an affair with a middle-aged woman. An incipient Washington administrator's friendship with a young Soviet reveals the bureaucratic fate that awaits them both...
Giangregario worked in the dining halls during the year and belongs to Local 26, the Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Employees Union. Frederick E. Walden, business agent for Local 26, said yesterday the union is defending Giangregario and has provided him with a lawyer. Giangregario could not be reached for comment yesterday...