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...Trusted Servant. Among the servants in the palace was a dark, hollow-cheeked 18-year-old, Pham Ngoc Lan, whom Commissioner de Raymond affectionately nicknamed le petit Tho (Little Tho). He had come into the Commissioner's service last August. Unaccountably, he had not been given the usual security check, but his shy manner and rare smile had won the confidence of the household. He was even allowed to tidy up the fussy Commissioner's air-conditioned bedroom. Last month le petit Tho took a day off, rode a bus 36 miles to Banam, where...
Like maidless Yale (TIME, Oct. 15), Harvard has been having servant troubles too. This term, in two undergraduate and two graduate dormitories, college officials substituted student porters for the traditional "biddies." Last week the Harvard Alumni Bulletin gave the experiment only a slight chance of success. "Some . . . are reasonably satisfied with the work of their porters up to now. But there are those . . . who have an indefinable emotional repulsion toward the idea of their fellow students prowling through their beds and papers every morning...
...love affair between Sarah Miles and Maurice Bendrix began ordinarily enough. He was a coldblooded, middling English novelist, she the warm-blooded wife of a dull, preoccupied, middling civil servant. Thanks to husband Henry's preoccupations, the Miles marriage had come to a physical standstill. When Sarah met Bendrix at a London cocktail party, she thought him, by contrast to her husband, excitingly alive. The third time they met, they went to bed in a cheap hotel. Bendrix, who was writing a novel in which a civil servant figured, had merely intended to quiz Sarah for some facts about...
Others in the cast are: Thomas V. Gaydos '54, Helmer; Michael R. Bouche '55, Trogstad; Louis Gaglini '55, Dr. Rank; Ruth L. Pearistein '54, Mrs. Lindon; Nancy J. Darling '54, nurse; and Charlotte S. Fox '54, maid servant...
...prophetic message is summarized in the idea of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah.* The Christians take this to be the foreshadowing of Jesus Christ, but Jewish tradition sees it as the role of the Jews in the world. And the important part of the concept is the word 'servant.' Suffering, too, if necessary-and it often seems to be necessary. But suffering by itself is not enough...