Thus the family driver, believing in equality and marrying for love, runs away with the family daughter; thus the men wear black tie instead of white to dinner one night; thus a new generation of servants is less servile, more willing to question.
Some viewed Mr. Ivanov as the most recent casualty in what seemed to be an orchestrated plan by Mr. Putin, 63, to install a new generation of "servants" to replace his contemporaries, who might still have had the standing to occasionally question his decisions.
Still, Mr. Volcker, one of a generation of public servants who came to Washington after World War II and viewed working for the federal government as the highest calling, admitted that even he has grown cynical.
"They do this through incredibly close relationships, not just with the outgoing ministers in DECC Departmentt for Energy and Climate Change) but with a whole generation of civil servants in DECC who can hardly move without consulting with the Big Six first," he said, adding that much of the influence is exerted through secondments.
"The energies he released, the people and ideas he encouraged, the style he brought to the Presidency" — all these would have real consequences — among them "a generation of public servants who will be serving Presidents (and perhaps being Presidents) into the next century".
I learned from her the crucial importance of training a successor generation of young servant-leaders which has been a strong priority of CDF's since its inception.
State control, in turn, made generations of civil servants tastemaking critics — their decisions on what to stock dictating what people could order in bars or buy in the stores.
Bernstein certainly had a feeling for dance, as proved by a calypso-driven ensemble during the marriage of Lud and Seena, stand-ins for three generations of black servants in the White House.
As well as the more obvious training for teachers and nurses, how do we ensure that the next generation of managers and civil servants arrive with the correct skills to thrive at a time when budgets are low and training is minimal?
I had been educated by a generation of scholars and public servants who had come out of the experience of fighting fascism and Nazism in World War II to build a collective bargaining system that was a "bulwark of a democratic society".
Eventually, a Baptist missionary persuades Alistair Feathers to send his son home, as is the custom, both to fend off tropical diseases and to educate the next generation of the Empire's loyal servants.
