Word: servant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special form of wages, a survival of serfdom days when the lord, pleased with his servant, gave him a reward of money.-The Soviet Encyclopedia...
...society that Nikita Khrushchev is building. Though what are called chaevye (literally: "for tea") gratuities may still be refused in the provinces, Moscow is full of waiters, doormen, taxi drivers, barbers, grocery delivery girls and manicurists who do not spurn, but come to expect and even to exact the servant's tribute. Komsomolskaya Pravda told of barbers who "scalp" non-tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income now comes from spraying overpriced Eau de Cologne on customers, thus raising their bill...
Christians will treasure many of these sayings for their restatements of familiar themes (It is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows, and it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters), as well as for their beauty and ring: Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I guard it until the world is afire...
There is sure proof, wrote Lippmann, "that there is something radically wrong with the fundamental national policy under which TV operates." The U.S. laissezfaire policy, he argued, has turned TV into "the creature, the servant, and indeed the prostitute, of merchandising...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb plays both knight and servant in I, Don Quixote, a modern version of Cervantes' classic...