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...Eileen's parents, an underbutler and a needlewoman in the Edwardian era, and partly by Jean's reading preferences. She wanted the servants to talk with the uncontaminated candor of Ivy Compton-Burnett's oracular children. The close, conspiratorial relationship between Rose and Sarah, the rebel maid, was inspired by the two maids in Henry Green's novel Loving (belowstairs in a country house). Remembering how one of those maids found her mistress in bed with a lover, Jean says: "I always wanted to walk in on Lady Marjorie like that and scream...
...look out for your own interests. One man writes to the Gestapo to denounce his neighbor, with whom he may be quarreling for any number of non-political reasons, fishing rights or a stolen chicken; the war allows the continuation of peacetime rivalries by different means. A peasant maid at the hotel befriends Lucien, takes him to bed, and cautions him not to get mixed up with the collaborators "who are not people like you and me." When Lucien later brings France to the hotel, the maid gets hysterical. She attacks France, screaming "Dirty, dirty Jew!"--the jealous rage...
...preferred not to hear it at all rather than hear it played poorly. In 1951 Ives turned down an invitation to attend Leonard Bernstein's premiere of the Symphony No. 2 in New York. But he did venture into the kitchen and listen to the broadcast on the maid's radio (he did not own one himself). Delighted, he came out dancing...
Hall said that the abolishment of the maid service would cause problems with staffing and alternative placement of personnel now employed at the Quad Houses...
Robert E. Kaufmann '62, dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, said that the entire list is "still in limbo," and that "no decision has been made yet." Kaufmann also cited the reallocation of manpower as a primary consideration in the maid service issue...