Word: servante
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...world does not want to be governed by a master, but a servant; a servant of the people. His letter shows the predominant trait of the Germanic people. Order, Yes, ORDER, at all cost, even down to the last of their own personal liberties...
...might be expected to be, like the hastily-written volumes of so many other emigres, a keyhole explanation of recent events. But "Embezzled Heaven" is a much less shallow work than "Seven Mysteries" or "Why France Fell." It is essentially an analysis, a dissection of Teta Linek, the gnarled servant woman of pre-auschluss Austrian aristocrats. When her employers with all their culture and education were stamped out under the swastika, this sextagenarian could face the future with calmness. For she had purchased a seat amongst the blessed by educating a nephew for the priesthood--and there was nothing...
...really scary thriller. The dreadful days on the little island of Samburan when creepy Mr. Jones and his two frightening assistants were looking for some swag can curl the hair of the most composed reader. Axel Heyst, mustachioed philosopher who lives in seclusion on the island with his Chinese servant, has heroic proportions. The howling storm which engulfs the last stages of the drama is great theatre. Alma, the helpless, buffeted pianist who escapes with Heyst to the peace of Samburan from oppression in an itinerant girls' band, is a charming romantic touch...
...yearns for the good life in Winchester. Mainly the story is of her more & more elaborate persecution of the young mulatto Nancy, whom she wrongly suspects of bedding with her husband. At her lowest she invites her rakehell nephew Martin for a visit, assigns him Nancy as his personal servant. Colbert and his daughter help Nancy escape, unscathed, into Canada. In an old-fashioned epilogue Willa Cather, aged five, sees Nancy's return as a middle-aged woman...
...windy dialogue. Frustrated progressives have two courses open to them: to cut loose and form a third party, or to try to capture one of the two major parties. They succeeded in doing the latter in 1936, but in the last two years the roles of master and servant have been reversed. Labor and liberals have entered into a Babylonian captivity from which they must escape; not up the blind alley to which John L. Lewis has pointed, but along a bolder course...