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See: agent, conduit, deputy, factor, informant, informer, intermediary, liaison, medium, plenipotentiary, procurator, proxy, replacement, representative, spokesman, substitute ENVOY, international law. In diplomatic language, an envoy is a minister of
the second rank, on whom his sovereign or government has conferred a degree
of dignity and respectability, which, without being on a level with an
ambassador, immediately follows, and among ministers, yields the preeminence
to him alone.
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| The artist's consciousness becomes a filter through which pass dual currents of out there and in here, in a relay that stays "live" as it extends to us, the newest reader-receivers in the chain, "giant hello and hug for me" says one envoi. A reader might do well to begin with his three-page envoi, a lucid summary of the vision that drives the book and gives perspective on the otherwise seemingly willful handling of some writers. In this my envoi column, however, I'd like to revive the idea of "News from Nowhere. |
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