Word: antebellum
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...creative heyday, Gian Carlo Menotti, 83, was noted more for his dark, neo-Puccini operas, such as The Saint of Bleecker Street and The Medium, than for comedy or farce. In later years, however, the aging composer more than made up for it. The setting was the antebellum-in-aspic city of Charleston, South Carolina, where in 1977 Menotti founded an American counterpart to his annual Spoleto Festival in Italy. Two years ago, Menotti resigned in a huff after a petulant, embarrassing two-year power struggle with the festival's board and management. First the board insisted on including...
...long before our Commencement, as I stood in the Lowell House belltower and watched tear gas canisters arch above Mt. Auburn Street during the Kent State/Cambodia riots, I could only think of those times as the antebellum Harvard...
...Clayton, one of two seats (the other is Eufaula) of Barbour County, an ordinary little county that has become nationally recognized as tort hell. The lawyer was Jere Beasley, who was once the Clayton High School quarterback and twice the lieutenant governor. Now 59 but still thick as an antebellum column in the neck, Beasley has a reputation for taking the side of ordinary folk against big corporations and bringing them to their knees, lightening their pocketbooks by the millions. Now he smiled at the prospective jurors, 100 people or so; everybody knew...
This historical fumble was merely an intellectual hors d'oeuvres. The real meat of the evening came with the presentation of Steele's theories. The crux of the argument was that: 1) White Americans live with perpetual guilt about their history as oppressors during the Antebellum period; 2) African-Americans exploit these latent feelings by claiming that white oppression is the primary social factor in explaining their lack of development; 3) Taken together points one and two lead to the development of policies of preference (affirmative action); 4) The keys to increased development for African-Americans are increased educational commitment...
Muhammad, an aide to Farrakan, attacked Jews, Catholics, and homosexuals. He said that in the antebellum South 75 percent of all slaves were owned by Jews. He also called for violence in South Africa...