Word: bellum
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...connections. One of them paid off: Dutch Schultz's mob guaranteed ''protection'' for Teddy's daughter when at 16 she began her career as a dancer at Harlem's Cotton Club. Yet Lena, though she followed in her parents' wayward footsteps, remained very much the proper granddaughter, combining ''ante-bellum manners and New England values.'' In later years she would go through a divorce and marry a white man, the orchestra leader and arranger Lennie Hayton. Between marriages she would even dare a brief fling with Joe Louis. But until she was 19, Lena had never had a boyfriend. Rather...
Faust focuses on the connections between Southern thinkers that made them intellectually productive. Ideas spread easily in cities, but the great distances that separate farmers challenge the transmission of new thoughts. Faust’s intellectuals were not the ante-bellum Bostonians whose easy interactions in dense urban environment produced abolitionism and transcendentalism...
...give way to anthrax scares—a prankster targets Joyce’s office with an envelope filled with talc, and she suspects that it could be Marshall—the bombing of Afghanistan, renewed surges of terrorism in Israel, and the invasion of Iraq. Kalfus portrays post-bellum reality as few other 9/11 artistes have, showing how the attacks have faded into the background radiation of our country’s life, occasionally surfacing sharply in phrases like “suicide bomb” and “Orange Alert...
President Bush has found himself a just cause for which to fight across the world and has presented a set of ideals and foreign policy objectives that are, at first glance, in line with his post bellum Iraqi regime change objective. The true test of the president’s consistency, and his ability to be successful in his cavalier style of foreign policy, has not yet come. During his visit to Moscow on Sunday, Bush and Putin were strictly convivial, with the Russian president letting his American colleague take his prized 1956 Volga GAZ-21 sedan for a spin...
...first thesis identified evidence of Islamic influence that survived from the Atlantic slave trade and the ante-bellum era, while the second thesis attributed Islam’s prominence among African-Americans to the effectiveness of such recent figures as Malcolm...