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...Goat), turns deceptively gentle and affectionate in The Skeleton in the Grass (Scribner's; 199 pages; $15.95), which focuses on the subtleties of the relationship between the teenage daughter of a poor British clergyman and the aristocratic family she is sent to join, as something between servant and family member, during the fateful summer of 1936. Among the moneyed Hallams, who are paradigms of noblesse oblige and liberal rectitude, the Spanish Civil War has become a daily obsession, and the eventuality of a broader war in Europe is an accepted fact. This political awareness, and their pacifist response, makes...
...Senate confirmation hearings on Thornburgh begin today and will give him a great chance to make headlines and garner praise from Republicans and Democrats alike. Already, Thornburgh has been praised by many Democratic leaders as a qualified public servant with a great reputation for personal integrity. He is expected to pass through the Senate hearings with as little trouble as a hot knife has passing through butter...
What Lackner did have was even more valuable. In about 1971, while working for Northrop, he had met Stuart Berlin, then and now a Navy civil servant. They formed a close friendship that continued as Berlin rose to become a contracting official at the Naval Air Systems Command -- working on, among other things...
...Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not?'" Allison quoted Kennedy, adding "Oscar Arias is a public servant who asks...
Philby, born Harold Adrian Russell, was the only son of St. John Philby, a British civil servant who sided with the colonies rather than the empire and became an adviser to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Harold was born in India, and in childhood acquired the lasting nickname of Kim, the courageous boy spy in Rudyard Kipling's tale. He attended his father's schools, Westminster and Cambridge. Philby met Burgess, Maclean and Blunt at Cambridge but insisted that they were not recruited there. In Vienna, where he lived after graduation, he joined a Communist cell and was assigned...