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...About your comment that "the secretary is the only good-and socially acceptable-servant left in America": workers we are, workhorses we may even be, but servants-never...
...Hugh Jenkins promptly tabled a motion in the House of Commons, signed by 32 other Laborites, which acidly affirmed that "it is a condition of constitutional monarchy that royalty should not give public expression to contentious political opinions." Snapped one M.P.: "Philip is a very highly paid civil servant [at $120,000 a year] who is expected to keep his nose out of politics." Worried Lord Brockway, chairman of the Movement for Colonial Freedom: "The Duke has unhappily given encouragement to Mr. Smith, whose whole strategy is to seek delay...
...servant Tranio, Richard Morse shows little of the talent of his celebrated brother Robert; and the three other servants come off only a little better. Ted Graeber, dressed in blue with pink trim, has one engaging bit as a prissy tailor...
...transformation of the domestic servant into a blueor white-collar worker means a great increase in efficiency in some areas, from frozen foods to dry cleaning. This does not necessarily produce a better way of smoothly coping with existence or gaining greater leisure. As Historian John Niven puts it: "My wife is as chained to the washing machine as she would be to the scrubbing board." The helpless life can create a nagging drudgery, a constant, often semiconscious preoccupation with the details of living, with intractable objects, impersonal mechanisms and complex logistics required for the simplest acts...
...office, he would feel justly abused if there were no one to type his letters, place his long-distance calls, or in a hundred different ways be an agent and intermediary between him and the surrounding world. The secretary, in fact, is the only good-and socially acceptable-servant left in America...