Word: servants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, Harris has come a long way by being aggressive. The daughter of a railroad dining-car waiter and a civil servant mother, she finished first in her class at George Washington University Law School. She taught at Howard University Law School, joined a top Washington law firm, served on the boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan, worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and became U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. But when a liberal Senator once implied that she was a member of the privileged class, she indignantly replied: "While there may be others who forget what...
...shrewd was Freedman's decision to turn Brutus' servant boy Lucius into a grown military orderly. Peter Webster is a good ten years too old, even if he did write his own song and does accompany himself on a mandolin. Brutus is his best self when dealing with a youngster who is a surrogate son. The character of Lucius was entirely Shakespeare's happy inspiration, and having an adult in the role undercuts what ought to be a loving, tender and solicitous father-son relationship--as we saw here between Douglas Watson and young Alan Howard in the 1966 production...
...Master Tommaso, if you don't like this sketch tell Urbino [Michelangelo's servant] in time for me to make another by tomorrow evening, as I promised; and if you do like it and want me to finish it, send it back to me." Michelangelo also had his visions of idealized womanly beauty. The Morgan has a sketch of one such vision, perhaps (as some romantics would have it) a portrait of the only wom an he ever loved. She was Vittoria Colonna, the Marchesa di Pescara, a woman 17 years younger than he, and their "love" seems...
...Erasmus commission also provided a fascinating summary of what happened to the Muldergate millions. The commission charged that some $500,000 kept bobbing up in various bank accounts belonging to Rhoodie and two of his brothers; Rhoodie's salary as a senior civil servant never exceeded $1,350 a month. The commission also declared that $19 million in public funds went to L. Van Zyl Alberts, the publisher of a newspaper and a magazine that were, in reality, secretly funded government publications; the report implies that the publisher's use of the money points "to theft and fraud...
...looked into Cutler's service in Zaire," explained a senior civil servant in Tehran. "We saw it as being of a colonial type, and that he was unaccustomed to dealing with equals. We don't want another Sullivan or Helms [former U.S. Ambassadors William Sullivan and Richard Helms]. Iran has changed, and America must recognize this truth. Our good relations depend upon an ambassador who understands what has happened here...