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Class marshall is an honorary position retained for life. The first marshal is the titular head of the class and together with the other marshals will lead the class in Commencement ceremonies...
Most important, the African leaders demanded that Britain, as the Rhodesians' titular colonial sovereign, convene a conference to iron out details about the makeup of the interim government, and take part in a subsequent constitutional conference as well. Snorted Salisbury's Foreign Affairs Minister P.K. van der Byl: "It simply shows the irresponsibility and unreliability of those we have to deal with...
...them out of newspapers. While the accounts may come across rather authoritatively in print, they are also apt to be vague, and scratching around in reference books often provides no historical clues to these struggles. Instead of offering a sturdy explanation, the journalists unendingly dissect the latest round of titular shuffling (the latest on Teng is still going strong after six months) until someone composes a new variation on the theme of personality clashes and shifts within the hierarchy. Personality and power, after all, make good copy...
Jolly Read. Small wonder then that Now Playing at Canterbury seems designed to stun the carpers into silence. The novel's considerable heft and the titular allusion to Chaucer are signs that High Seriousness is about to be committed. Bourjaily's publisher has pitched in with a prepublication hype apparently keyed to the Second Coming ("one of the most important books Dial will ever publish ... the major work by a major American novelist"). Such hoopla not only raises expectations that Moby-Dick would have trouble satisfying, but it also obscures the nicest thing about Bourjaily's novel...
...Shensi province to avoid destruction by Chiang Kai-shek and was Mao's field commander in the successful struggle against the Nationalist armies in 1946-49. A political moderate, during the 1966-67 Great Cultural Proletarian Revolution Chu Teh was attacked as a "big ruffian." He was titular head of state for the past 19 months and received China's foreign visitors after Mao's health failed last month...