Word: master
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Crossroads. She needs to know nothing about high policy, but she must know a lot about politicians. She is a master of the cross-phone invitation (tell the Chief Justice the Secretary is coming, tell the Secretary the Chief Justice is coming, get both).* She is a kind of social crossroads; her guests come not so much to see her as to see each other. Her satisfaction comes from hobnobbing conspicuously with the great and near-great...
Waiting Santa Claus. Lively, chatty, hard-working at the office, she lived quietly alone in a $34.50-a-month room. Nights, she studied for a master's degree at American University, wrote a critical paper on "Economic Planning in the Soviet Union." Most weekends, Judith went home to Brooklyn to visit her ailing parents. Her mother had heart trouble; her father, Samuel Coplon, a retired toy merchant, was paralyzed. Samuel Coplon used to be known as the "Santa Claus of the Adirondacks": he gave away thousands of toys to country kids at Christmas. One night last week, the Coplons...
Heil had little trouble convincing most fellow connoisseurs that it was a genuine Verrocchio, and that it belonged in the all-too-short catalogue of the 15th Century master's works. He proudly put the sculpture on display in his San Francisco museum...
...thing was sure: all of the orchestra's 90 players had been fired. But, said both Orchestra Personnel Manager Karl Chase and Union President Jack Ferentz, that was just a routine matter. Under their complicated agreement, as long as no master contract had been signed for next season, the orchestra was obliged to make all the musicians free agents. That gave the men a chance to find new jobs if they wanted to, and the orchestra a chance to make replacements. The joker: in the past, the musicians had been warned in advance that the firing was a mere...
Once he became undisputed master of Drury Lane Theater, Garrick made improvements. He scrapped some of the more outrageous revisions of Shakespeare (though he lacked the courage to restore the tragic ending of Lear), and he insisted on sincerity in performances. Garrick's actors found themselves merged with their roles-even though the identification might sometimes become too complete. Once when Garrick spoke the line, "There's blood upon thy face," the poor fellow opposite was so startled that he flubbed his lines and cried out, "Is there...