Word: middleman
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...authority of the articles is too often obscured by ponderous writing. Aimed at an unspecialized audience, the magazine needs more translation by competent, middleman journalists. Mary Harrington Hall, a former science writer who was one of the first staffers hired by Charney, comes closest. But even when she tries to inject lightness and broader explanation into her tape-recorded interviews with the likes of Existentialist-Psychotherapist Rollo May and Harvard Behaviorist B. F. Skinner, the transcribed result more often than not sounds like interruptions...
...immediate alternative, Calkins suggested that some national group such as the Urban Coalition start a new foundation to act as a "middleman" for donations to universities...
...were 63 distilleries there in 1750), coffee growers in Brazil, to say nothing of owners of cotton, rice and tobacco plantations in the South-all were dependent, directly or indirectly, upon the slave trade. All their quoted comments, says the disapproving author, ring with "the eternal voice of the middleman, the levelheaded, grating speech of money...
Cross knew Kondo, for the Jordanian had served as middleman between him and the Bedouin in previus scroll sales. He was not quite honest, but at least not dangerous. The route became less "circuitous," the car halted at the banker's mansion, and Cross awaited the scrolls which he had traveled over 6000 miles to authenticate...
...middleman between Artist Whitman and his engineers was a one-year-old organization called EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc.), which operates under an $8,000 grant from New York State, and expects to provide artists with the scientific savvy to produce even more far-out art. Among EAT's first private backers, each of which has put up $1,000 to encourage the liaison between art and industry and will lend its technicians to the cause, are A.T. & T., IBM and the A.F.L.-C.I.O...