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This person is possibly the only nonelite, vaguely middle-class third world student I interviewed; the student's is the only family, for example, which does not hire servants. But the process of Westernization is complete enough with "them," demonstrated by "their" first reason for coming to Harvard: the influence of the United States Information Agency office in "their" city. The student also has apparently imbibed enough American values to say that the smartest students do well and advance through the examination system in "their" country; class differences--between say, the tenth child of a poor peasant...
Kenton is courted by many spies in Background To Danger, but the one whom he trusts is Zaleshoff, a Soviet agent. Zaleshoff is probably the most sympathetic character in all of Ambler's work--a shrewd and courageous servant of his government in the fight against fascism. If it were not for his sister-and-colleague (the beautiful Tamara) deflating his ego and making him look constantly ridiculous (women in Ambler are often girl Fridays who see through the melodramatic illusions of men), Zaleshoff might be a bit much. But he is the wonderful stuff of a racidal's fantasy...
...beguiling the barbarian commander with words and wine, Judith seizes his sword and chops off his head. The score is sumptuous, propelled by the Baroque master's typical unflagging vitality. In this recording both male and female solo roles are sung by women. In the part of the servant Abra, the ease and accuracy of Soprano Ameling's clear shining passage-work-as in the the aria "Armatae face"-complements the noble style of Contralto Finnilä's Judith...
...back from the trenches to do light duty at batallion headquarters. But sometimes Fussell gets caught up in that class-determined culture, as when he describes Blunden's "very worst moment" (Fussell's words), an explosion that happened close by but that Blunden only heard about. Blunden's gardner-servant told him, "Don't go over, sir, it's awful." Why don't we hear more of what the valet or others like him had to say and write about...
Unlike many independently wealthy ambassadors, Moynihan lives entirely off his $44,600 U.N. salary. The Moynihans are provided with the Waldorf suite, a car and a driver. But their only servant is Hives, a life-sized papier-mache butler who stands at the door of the apartment wearing the castaway clothes of a warm-blooded English butler who once worked for them. The figure is the creation of their son Tim. With all three children away at school, Hives and a wire-haired fox terrier named...