Word: servante
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...sugar plantation, she lived for 27 years on many islands in what was then an opulent Dutch Indian Eden. Her children and grandchildren were born there. The look, sounds, smells of jungle and sea seem to have penetrated her consciousness. The deep differences between native and white, between servant and master, are effortlessly established as both subtle and decisive. And underneath the light garment of Christianity or Mohammedanism worn by the natives, there is the steadily discernible play of a fundamental superstition...
Visitors to the chateau of Cirey came away so dumfounded that they could scarcely summon the strength to repeat everything they had seen and heard. One of them, arriving in broad daylight. claimed that he was led by a servant carrying a lantern through a succession of cavernous, shuttered rooms until a door opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover...
...stage in the extremely difficult part as the lover of the Bride. As his wife, Roz Faber likewise shows superb comprehension of her role. Gloria DePiero plays a comely Bride, but she is guilty of extreme overacting at times. And Olympia Dukakis shows some sign of talent as the servant woman who acts almost as a classical chorus. However her Brookline accent detracts from her performance. Edward Zang gives a nice and largely unaffected performance as the Bride's father...
...Parliament, Strydom's Justice Minister Charles Swart declared that the opposition planned to use this "unfortunate instance of a public servant" against the Nationalists in the campaign for the April general elections. On hearing this, the Nationalists glowered at their opponents and burst into shouts of "Shame...
Munnich gives Hungarians little to look forward to. A founder of Hungary's Communist Party and long a resident of Russia (he holds both Hungarian and Russian citizenship), he has been a stolid Moscow servant for decades. As Hungary's postwar ambassador to Finland, Bulgaria, Russia and Yugoslavia, he avoided involvement with the dangerous infighting inside the party, concentrated on Tokay wines, women and his rose garden...