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Envoy
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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.
     2. Envoys are either ordinary or extraordinary; by custom the latter is held in greater consideration. Vattel, liv. 4, c. 6, Sec. 72.
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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.
Emily Jacir: Alexander and Bonin by Richard, Frances / Artforum International
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.
Reform and Cultural Revolution by Gleason, John B. / Renaissance Quarterly
In this my envoi column, however, I'd like to revive the idea of "News from Nowhere.
News from the North: The News from Everywhere by ELLIS, SARAH / The Horn Book Magazine
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