Each of them is called Servant, and they're among the first people we see in the elegiac and beautiful "Idiot Savant," by the writer and director Richard Foreman (at the Public).
Heaney's third collection, Wintering Out (1972), takes its title from a line in a poem called "Servant Boy", which may be read as a hint of troubles to come: "He is wintering out... / swinging a hurricane lamp".
One is called servant evangelism which, in my eyes, is far more like the evangelism Jesus did for most people (save for a handful of his inner circle of disciples).
The Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin called servants in novels "the most privileged witnesses to private life".
Powell's sequel to "Below Stairs," called "Servants' Hall," was published in 2013; the memoir "Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor," from 1975, is back on the shelves as a new Penguin paperback; and "Life Below Stairs: The True Lives of Edwardian Servants" was published in 2012.
In fact, he's noticed it so often that he's toyed with the idea of writing an amusing article about it, for Punch, called 'Servants and the Weather.' " Soon William has become so proprietary about his favorite whore that he asks her madam -- who also happens to be her mother, in a book with much to say about maternal cruelty -- if he can formalize an exclusive arrangement.
The closest I got to Coco were the electric call button servant stations that alerted servants with a lit-up button when they were needed in one of the rooms.
The candidate may now be called a "Servant of God".
Now "I called my servant, and he gave me no answer.... My breath is strange to my wife".
The gift shop, in what the docents call "the servants' quarters," sells books with such titles as "Myths of American Slavery" and "Slaves by Choice".
