Bruce Rankin
Bruce Rankin loved the Foreign Service. He used to say that its members were a breed apart — able to adjust quickly to new cultures and to deal imaginatively and flexibly with a huge range of issues and problems. Bruce cared very…
Ode (of sorts) to a pot bellied stove
bout de papier, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1986) — Winter 1986 // Hiver 1986, p. 11 My name, you’ll see, is Dandy!And I’m sure I’ll come in handy.I’ve been cast about a life-timeBut now I’m in my secondprime:Still of use, handsome too,Worth full ten times originalvalue.Being now antique to boot,My pedigree is absolute!*(Cast in 1893 […]
Pardy’s Corner
L east Thursday was October 9, a normal, breezy Canadian fall day. The kind of day that demands decisions regarding jackets and gloves — to wear or not to wear; to wear now and carry later.
Letters to the Editor
Editor, Bout de papier
Letter From Our President
As if putting on the storm windows and making the garage fit to hold the car again weren’t enough, the foreign service family faces another seasonal task in late autumn. The formerly spontaneous realization that another posting wouldn’t be a bad thing…
Editor’s Notebook
The new executive is elected and representative of all streams and levels. There is a healthy infusion of new blood. Fears that the election would result in an Executive without balanced representation were proven groundless. All of which shows that Bernard Shaw…
PAFSO Group Life Plan Welcome Back EX/FS
by Christine Manseau
Managing Managers: The PAFSO Evaluation Guide
It has frequently been observed that there exists a fundamental asymmetry within the department, in that the formal appraisal system, like many other aspects of bureaucratic process, works principally from the top down. Among other things, this situation has had a detrimental…
Villette
Villette has relevance to the modern experience of foreign life. It explores the themes of alienation and identity through the evolution of the character of the narrator, Miss Lucy Snowe, an English school teacher in Villette, a fictional portrait of 19th century…
Prince Myshkin
bout de papier, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1986) — Fall 1986 // Automne 1986, p. 17 I have a holy fool inside.He weighs each word I say.And when I talk coherentlyI feel him drift away,Walk into the midnight fog,And wrap himself aroundA derelict, a pimp, a fagFor company underground.Or make a holy sacrifice,Idle in the […]
