Word: servant
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...writings is hard to understand, especially because some, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, wrote against slavery from their college days to the end of their lives. More than 40 women poets turn up, ranging from Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, to Anne Yearsley the milkmaid poet and other servant girls on both sides of the Atlantic. They give voice to powerful feminine perspectives on a topic that might have been seen as suitable only for the governing male elite. And they touch on themes - interracial romance, sexual violence, children - that deepen the pathos within the broader historic sweep...
Want a more positive (and pricey) teaching tool? Try the ER2 from Evolution Robotics (available this fall for roughly $2,000). This Jetsonsesque servant can read books placed in front of it, even upside down. It can also be programmed to play a CD just by looking at its cover or patrol the house, taking security snapshots. ER2 is the first consumer robot to move autonomously on the basis of its vision, so the cat can't trip it up. Stairs, alas, are still a problem...
...Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave), two of which won Oscars. Here was the definitive English couple, manacled to each other for life: Wallace, a bachelor with a love for cheese and a weakness for inventing things that blow up, and Gromit, his silent pet, indentured servant and reluctant savior. Next year they'll star in The Great Vegetable Plot, Park's first feature film since the delicious Chicken Run in 2000. But now they can be seen, in byte-size form, on the Internet (at www.atomfilms.com) 10 savory japes with the general title Cracking Contraptions...
...friend and former blockmate Katherine A. Shackelford ’03 said Marinelarena was an exemplary public servant...
During the Commencement of 1959, then University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, calling him a “great-hearted, staunch-minded servant of order and justice in our country and the world...