Word: servante
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...member of an intellectually inferior race. The attitude is not without historical precedent. Segregationists of the U.S. South often quote the Book of Genesis 9:25, which relates that Canaan, the son of Ham-whose skin was believed to be black-is ac cursed throughout time: "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." The 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume suspected "Negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites." Several U.S. Presidents, among them Jefferson and Lincoln, shared the same opinion, at least for a while. As long as the two races lived together, said Lincoln...
...calls the boom "sonic pollution," and his conclusion is pollution is not progress. "We all believe in progress," he says of his group, "but some things just aren't progress." One of this month's press releases concludes, "Aviation should be the servant of man, not his scourge...
...parental ties, in fact, are ultimately responsible for the destruction of the Canalis family, a clan as full of brutality and fanaticism as the Karamazovs. Cowed by his father, shunned by his stepmother and stepsister, Anestis blunders his way around the farm until one day he surprises the mute servant girl (Elli Fotiou) in the barn, rapes and kills her-a murder quickly discovered by his parents. Because he is their son, the couple cannot and will not turn the murderer in. In stead, the old man beats the boy remorselessly-and then that night helps row the corpse...
...townspeople accept the servant girl's disappearance, but the sister does not. She begins to grill her stepbrother, who hysterically runs to his parents for aid. To ensure her silence, the father consents to let her marry a man whom she loves-and he despises. At the Greek fete, as Anestis drunkenly dances in celebration of his stepsister's wedding, the servant's body mysteriously rises to the water's surface and begins floating to shore, bringing with it the dissolution of the house of Canalis...
...next years were filled with reverses. She took a job as a governess in Yorkshire to supplement the meager family income, was crushed to find herself treated as a common servant. Hoping to start her own school, she enrolled in a Brussels pensionnat to perfect her French and learn feminine "accomplishments"; instead, she broke her heart over the school's happily married director...