Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For all the notoriety which the judgment of history has fastened upon the Salem witch-hunts, the true story of the trials is a little-known one. It is an intensely dramatic story, numbering among its villains many of the great men of colonial Massachusetts. And in the hero's...
Salazar rules calmly from the background, hating every minute of the occasional public appearances he cannot avoid. Living piously, almost austerely (up at 6:30 every morning for Mass), he pays himself a $500-a-month salary (plus a Lisbon mansion and a summer place made from an old seacoast...
On Huggins' opposite flank stand the bitter leaders of 6,500,000 Africans. They oppose the Federation because it i) removes the benevolent hand of the British Colonial .Office, and 2) transfers "native affairs" to a Central African Parliament dominated by local whites. Fewer than 500 Negroes are eligible...
The implications. May believes, "may be enough ... to drive American historians back into the colonial period or else into writing busty fiction."
In the Castle of My Skin should make instructive reading for colonial administrators. Author Lamming remembers how things were, can still reproduce faithfully the political confusion of the islanders, as well as he can record the quarreling speech of a village strumpet: "I could give your story to the worl...