Word: antebellum
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...pernicious stereotypes, especially his portrayal of blacks. Writes Sowell: "With little incentive to work any more than necessary to escape punishment, slaves developed foot-dragging, work-evading patterns that were to remain as a cultural legacy long after slavery itself disappeared. Duplicity and theft were also pervasive patterns among antebellum slaves, and these too remained long after slavery ended." But Sowell sees other, more optimistic signs. Says he: "I'm always amazed, when I drive through Harlem, at the kids dashing out to wash windshields. Decades of abuse haven't stamped out the initiative of the people...
...adventure, Wicked Loving Lies, has sold 3 million copies, and her fellow rapees, the heroines of paperback romances, were responsible for sales upwards of $100 million in 1980 -representing over one-fourth of mass-market softcover volumes. This year is expected to be even bigger. As gothics and antebellum adventures fade, the "contemporaries," as the trade labels them, are becoming the ardor of the day. Says Dell Vice President Ross Claiborne: "It's a license to print money." The license requires a plucky heroine up against heartrending odds (job problems; the other woman). Object: the tycoon or professional...
...John Skow's story "In Missouri: A Beastly Display" [Jan. 19]-was beastly in more ways than one. His description of the animal auction was grimly reminiscent of slave sales in the antebellum South, conducted for much the same reason: "pleasure" and profit. Today more and more concerned people hope that the slavery of animals eventually will be viewed with the same disgust, and condemned with the same moral righteousness, as human chattel...
...domestic news bureaus (in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and San Francisco), foreign correspondents in Rome and London and a joint bureau with the Canadian Television Network in Peking. It plans to open offices soon in Bangkok, and Amman, Jordan. Headquarters for the operation is an antebellum mansion on 22 acres in Atlanta that cost $8.5 million to acquire and refurbish. CNN has spent $10 million on space-age TV equipment, most of it for the Atlanta studio. Cable systems around the country that subscribe to CNN will receive its programs from a communications satellite orbiting...
...halcyon days of Kansas City jazz have gone forever, and the sad scraps of film that survive--hokey period pieces which show these great musicians transformed by the miracle of Hollywood into grinning antebellum darkies who sway to the beat of their most commercial pieces--obviously fail to recover the real spirit of the era. The Last of the Blue Devils is no substitute for the films that a more perfect world would have made in those days. Most of the Kansas City players have passed their prime, and much of their music has become cliched and formulaic. But Ricker...