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...moment, even the truth seemed unsavory. Pinning a medal on some public servant's chest mainly for his attending a Harvard party seemed the height of hubris. Medals are usually reserved for extraordinary accomplishments, like winning a marathon, furthering world peace, or failing that, demonstrating uncommon valor on the battlefield...
...needs to be more effective criteria for disbursing the funds. One step in that direction, many say, would be to narrow the allocation of grants to programs that will directly implement their money into the community. Another step in the right direction would be to place an experienced public servant on the committee responsible for approving grants...
...James wandered Europe and the U.S., staying in hotels or in friends' houses. He was completely mobile. He needed only pen and paper to write his usual six hours a day. Then in middle age, he got writer's cramp. He bought a typewriter, and, of course, needed a servant to operate the thing. So now James was more and more confined to his home in Sussex, pacing the room, dictating to the typist and the clacking machine. James became a prisoner of progress...
...administrator, you really are a servant of the faculty," he says. "I've always felt an almost religious awe of great scholars...
...ceiling, musicians are suspended in a metal-mesh box above the stage--and the strength of its newly expanded ensemble. Stanley Anderson is by turns uproarious, winsome and infuriating as the despicable Lord Are. Casey Biggs and Kim Staunton bring dignity and slow- dawning horror to the doomed servant Bob and his wife. And Tom Hewitt excels as the lord's other footman, as defiant as Bob is trusting. In a sardonic twist by Bond, this challenge to authority gets nowhere. Caught as a runaway thief, the self-assertive servant, like the deferential one, is hanged on an unjust...