Word: cellblock
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...once had the opportunity to accompany Nelson Mandela on a tour of the cellblock on South Africa's Robben Island where he spent many of his 27 years of imprisonment. He recalled how he and his colleagues used to argue about the tactics of Gandhi, who developed his theory of nonviolence as a young lawyer in that country. In his essay, Mandela describes how he strayed from Gandhi's philosophy at times...
Modi related his early Harvard days cowering in his "Canaday cellblock," which he called the "black hole...
Wearing blue jeans and a contemptuous look, Peru's President Alberto Fujimori swaggers into the dank cellblock of the Castro Castro Prison, a squalid penitentiary on Lima's outskirts that houses scores of captured rebels from the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). Seeing Fujimori, the Tupac prisoners spring angrily from the concrete beds inside their overcrowded cells. Fists raised, they hurl deafening Marxist choruses: "Fujimori, dictator, the people will defeat...
...hardly blinks; he is unfazed by the stench of sweat and sewage. He moves toward the cell bars, his face so close that the guerrillas would gladly put him in a choke hold if not for the armed guards, and suddenly he smiles at them. Strolling on through the cellblock, he sees an inmate weaving straw hats. "Those are good looking," the President says; "let me buy one." The inmate's reply is hardly Marxist: "Ten soles" ($4). He hands the hat through the bars, and Fujimori puts it on. "Pay the man," he tells an aide...
...wrote Miracle of the Rose and The Thief's Journal was no sunny gay poet like Walt Whitman. When he celebrated himself, it was a tangle of paradoxes he pointed to. His chief delight was his own abjection. His notion of Utopia was a cellblock of masters and servants, preferably locked in a bear hug. He left little record of how his novels, written mostly in prison, developed. Though White doesn't penetrate all Genet's mysteries -- such as how a foster child who spent much of his adolescence in a reformatory became one of the supreme stylists in French...