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...nature lover who claims he would be happiest inspecting Jordan's trees. He is a graduate of Beirut's American University, fought as a British army captain during the war, later served for a spell in the Syrian army, returned to Jordan to become a civil servant. In the tax department. Wasfi Tal is remembered with awe for trying to make rich Jordanians pay their taxes. In the last ten years he has served, intermittently, as a Jordanian diplomat all over the Middle East, and adversaries loudly claim that he fomented anti-government plots in Syria. Lebanon...
...Wieland case has an importance far greater than its immediate implications might suggest. If every civil servant can be called subversive because hindsight shows his decisions to have been ill-advised, the United States will never have a creative civil service...
Hickey's blood heated early. A naughty servant, Nanny Harris, played bed games with him when he was still a child, and a year or so later, when a family friend gave him his first guinea, young William had no doubt about what to do with it. He hurried to the Covent Garden lodging of Nanny, who by this time conducted her bed games professionally. "I told her the strength of my purse," Hickey recalls, "and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful sprig of 13, stuck up in a green...
Appearing on a double bill with Oh, Dad is another Kopit play, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, which appeared at Dunster House in 1959. This one concerns a magician who, unable to keep drawing crowds, retires to an abandoned house with his servant, a clown...
...time, Emile enjoys a mindlessly sensual affair with a married woman (Janet Ward). But the lure of the egg is too strong. He marries a bureaucrat's daughter and becomes a civil servant. When his wife is unfaithful, Emile turns venal and takes money from her lover "for the entertainment." Fearful that the pair might kill him, Emile murders his wife with the lover's revolver. In a hilarious scene of courtroom parody, the lover is sentenced to a 20-year jail term, and Emile yelps gleefully to the audience "That's the system...