Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Surrey worked in government for 13 years before he went to the Law School, and has had little difficulty adapting to the difference in climate. "I'm not sure there is such a thing as an academic man or a government official," Surrey commented. "Lawyers tend to fit into both atmospheres...
...five, four--Stanley Surrey, Archibald, Cox, Abram Chayes and John McNaughton--were professors at the Law School before going to the Capital. David Beil was Secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration and Lecturer in Economics. Presently scattered around Washington in four different Departments, the Harvard contingent classifies their experience in Washington as "exhilarating," "frustrating," "fascinating," and as a "good kind of interlude." But while they welcomed the chance to "get in touch with reality," they all look with obvious relish to the day they will return to academic life...
...Stanley Surrey, who is assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax matters, the ties with other Harvard men in Washington are not very important. His job seems exceptionally time-consuming. Surrey has not only had to handle Congressional relations on the tax-reduction bill, but is primarily responsible for planning future tax policy for the government. "You have to make the effort to stand on top of the mountain to check over all activity. You have to be prepared for problems two or three years ahead of time...
Southwark slices the British social system from top to bottom. It starts on the tough Thames River docks in the heart of London, runs south through the vast, scruffy slums of Bermondsey, and courses along the commuter train tracks to green suburban Surrey, where Tudor estates and Bentleys abound. An estimated 550,000 confirmed Anglicans live in the diocese. Where the wealthy Establishment stockbrokers reside, the churches-and collection plates-are full, but in the populous working-class parishes, the pews have never been full...
...cape. "Ah, Mervyn," said one friend, "incognito, I see." Shortly after young Prince Charles, 14, was caught drinking cherry brandy in a hotel bar in Scotland last month, Bishop Stockwood was introduced to a parishioner's son at a sherry party on the lawn of a rather staid Surrey rectory. Jovially, he asked the boy: "Have you had your cherry brandy today...