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...humble servant of the forces of history and for all the imperfection of the human material he had to wok with, for all the disappointments of the last years, the struggle to build a new society, a new world, would go on after he was gone...
...Thant, for his eloquent peace talks in Kashmir, for his attempts for open talks in Viet Nam, for being the perfect international servant, stressing peace through understanding. EIRIK FORGENSUR
Maugham cites his own example. He once met a dull couple at a dull dinner. The man had been a civil servant in Asia, and the only memorable thing about him was that he was a onetime drunk, taking a bottle to bed with him every night and finishing it before morning. His wife seemed a drab mediocrity, but she had cured her husband of drink. Out of this, Maugham contrived a superb story (Before the Party), which begins in a prim country dwelling, turns into a confession by the fat widow that she had slashed her backsliding husband...
...looking for the man who is a professional politician or a career civil servant," Price said. "We want the people in between." He noted that "these men really have an immense influence on government." Even though the program will be geared to them, he said, people from both ends of the spectrum might also participate...
...Field, a royal residence where Lord Darnley, Mary's dissolute young husband, lay recovering from a severe case of pox that most likely was secondary syphilis. But Darnley was not a victim of the blast. In some manner, which has always bemused and tantalized historians, he and a servant got away to a nearby garden, where they were waylaid and strangled...