Word: memorialist
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...temperament and training, Murphy was committed to "obedience to official policy"-an attitude perhaps admirable in a career diplomat but less so in a memorialist. Thus Diplomat Among Warriors has little to say about the overall foreign policy of the period that it covers. But it has a few footnote comments to add to the period's history...
...study American regional history is to listen to the music of Ferde Grofé. Among his nine schmalzy suites are musical chronicles of the Hudson River, the Mississippi, Death Valley and, most famed of all, the Grand Canyon. Last fortnight Memorialist Grofé. a vigorous 68, got around to San Francisco. Before an audience of proud local citizens, he conducted the première of his golden-gaited San Francisco Suite, tracing the fortunes of the city from gold-rush days to the present...
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