Word: servant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four Symphonies Milhaud I. Le Printemps (1917) Allant--Chantant--Vif II. Pastorale (1913) Joyeux--Calme Joyeux III. Dixtuer a cordes (1921) Ouverture--Chorale--Etude Serenade (1921) Vivement -- Calme--Rondement Suite from "The Wind Remains" (1943) Bowles I. Prologue II. Introductory dance III. Clown's dance IV. Love music V. Servant's dance VI. Dream music VIII. Finale Concerto for Orchestra in E-flat ("Dumbarton Oaks") (1937-1938) Stravinsky
Just a few months back (along with some 75,000 like him) the new civil servant had landed in the Capital, his fever patriotically high, his eyes star-spangled, his shoes freshly whitened. He had pitched in to help win the war. Things looked different now. Now he cursed his Congressman, his tortured sinus, his lumpy boardinghouse bed, the humid streets, the dismal food, the bus service. Mostly, this week, he brooded about his tardy paycheck...
...Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will sink into oblivion, without leaving a landmark to tell that he once existed; or, if he is spoken of hereafter, he will be quoted as the unfaithful servant who abused his trust. The poet: Edgar Allan...
...could be. But that is the kind of confidence, amounting to a fervent faith, that the U.S. has learned to place in Bernie Baruch, multimillionaire stock speculator, brilliant generalissimo of the World War I Industries Board, adviser to five Presidents, and a private citizen who has been a public servant for a quarter of a century...
...jochu, the pretty servant girl, sat beside him as he ate, remembered how much sugar he liked in his coffee, and pattered into his room in the morning before he was dressed. She had never been kissed. Patric grew fond of her, took her walking in quiet lanes, and when he left gave her an expensive copy of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, translated into Japanese. "I wanted her never to forget the first man and perhaps the last who kissed her." That idyllic interlude was soon lost in the travels in industrial Japan, Korea, Occupied China, in questionings...