Word: servante
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...Alec Guinness, who nattily impersonates the Arab Prince Feisal with obvious and engaging contempt for the whole business, can sweeten the arid piles of camel dung in which he is trapped. It is also good to see Claude Rains back in North Africa, still, as ever, the mysterious servant of a corrupt colonial power. But ditto...
Noble Contest. Last week alone, John demonstrated in the space of a few busy days the qualities that have made him prefer, among all the impressive titles of the Roman Pontiff, the simple designation servus servorum Dei?servant of the servants of God. After delivering a Christmas message in which he rejoiced at the end of the Cuban crisis (he noted that his pleas for peace at that time "were not words shouted into the wind") and pleaded for Christian unity and for peace?"of all the earth's treasures, the most precious and most noteworthy''?he addressed...
...Critic Harry Rogoff is 80. In a period of instant cookery, the Forward instructs its readership on the fermentation of wine. Space is still reserved for humor of a high Jewish flavor: "Sam: There is nothing better than to lie in bed in the morning and ring for a servant. Jonah: But you have no servant. Sam: But a bell...
...this appellation to cover their positions as chicken killers, kosher slaughterers, synagogue beadles, ritual arrangers, providers of a minyan (made famous by Paddy Chayefsky's Tenth Man), circumcisers, cantors, choir singers, undertakers, burial arrangers, and frequently even grave diggers, not to speak of the ubiquitous shammash (originally "servant"), who is the real factotum in every well-run synagogue or temple. I wonder if they like to be called or to call themselves "reverends" because of its similarity in sound to the real appellation of the modern-day Jewish clergyman, and thus hope to be considered as rabbis without...
Italy's biggest steelmaker is a civil servant, but hardly servile. Says bullish-looking Ernesto Manuelli, 56, president of the state-controlled Finsider steel complex: "I have more freedom of action than a man in my position in private business. Presidents of Fiat or Pirelli often have to get their boards' permission before initiating changes. I don't." Several years ago, he rebuffed a government demand that Finsider build a plant in job-starved southern Italy, instead vastly expanded its plants in Genoa before moving down the Boot. Manuelli also publicly opposed the nationalization of Italy...