In "The Rhetoric of Economics," McCloskey mocked bourgeois man as a ludicrous character, "at once master and servant, inclined therefore to hypocrisy and doubletalk, 'umble and yet pompous".
So far, Zalaznick has been able to serve, ingeniously, these two masters at once.
In a chapter called "Keeping Your Head When You Have Several Superiors," General Pace's knack at pleasing many masters at once was profiled in a recent book by Michael Useem, "Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win".
When the coronal space is insufficient to accommodate multiple master cones at once, the larger master cone can be cut extraorally, at the level of the bifurcation or orifice.
The Master knew at once that the apprentices, who were both quite young, were very sure of themselves and were belittling themselves only out of courtly politeness, but the loneliness of his last months was soothed by their words of homage.
You also need to be very quick at picking up choreography, as a busy theater cast do not have enough time to wait three days for you to pick up that tricky move, you have to master everything at once.
An old master-at-arms I once knew had advice for sinking sailors: "Be grateful you're not burning".
Without slowing down his acting career, he recently took four master's degrees at once, studying film-making at NYU, writing at Columbia and Brooklyn College, and poetry at a college in North Carolina.
It was during this time, as well, that he wrote the New England novels that made his reputation, most notably "The Rise of Silas Lapham" and "A Modern Instance," mastering a realism at once wry and thoughtful, but perhaps hampered by politeness.
If White could master the bird, he seemed to believe, he could at once master and vicariously enjoy his own violent urges.
