Word: servitor
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...battle for survival also was a fascinating study. Chronically late, incorrigibly loquacious, hopelessly disorganized, the Vice President had seemed to everyone but himself to be a walking case of rigor mortis until the final stretch, when suddenly, somehow, the impassioned humanitarian soul of Humphrey began to flare through the servitor's mask he had worn for four years under Johnson...
HUBERT HUMPHREY has just two months to overcome his image as Lyndon Johnson's servitor and re-establish his own individuality. Yet, instead of staking out a creative and specific program of his own that would help him to do so, the Vice President seems prepared to wage his campaign on another man's record: Richard Nixon...
...mail-writing friend who never missed her Vienna appearances-Sigmund Freud. Yvette's wastrel father deserted the family when she was 13, and she vowed to marry only a man who would "cater to my every caprice," and that's the sort of self-effacing servitor she finally...
Truly, in Trnka the play and its poet have found a richly susceptible servitor whose "eye, in a fine frenzy rolling...
Throughout, Fulcun pursues God as closely as he does Aide. He goes barefoot to a hostile bishop to escape excommunication. He becomes a novitiate monk. But God, like the woman, will not have him as a servitor, and he retreats at last to a ramshackle hut on the coast of Brittany to live in humble poverty. This, seemingly, is his final penance, for Aide comes to him: "She took his hand, and they went on together to the hayfield through the cool heavy...