Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...useful, though not extenuating, to point out that Americans did not invent slavery. Their form of chattel slavery, however, was uniquely ugly. Still, slavery has a long, dishonorable history. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia kept slaves before 2000 B.C., and the Code of Hammurabi laid down rules governing the practice. In eight years, Caesar sent back some 500,000 slaves from Gaul to work mines, plantations and public projects; some, of course, became gladiators. The Domesday Book recorded 25,000 slaves in England. Races from the Mayans to the Muslims to, notably, black Africans have kept slaves for many centuries...
There are even some perversely approving things to be said for slavery: that in its earliest form, it actually marked a humanitarian improvement in the laws of war, since it involved the capture of prisoners instead of their slaughter. Oddly, it was not a primitive practice, in one sense, because it required a stable and settled society in order to take root...
...nature of the Bible. His most controversial material, however, is left for Volume III. In this section Henry will defend the belief that the Bible was totally error-proof ("inerrant") when it was originally written, and that later copies and translations "convey the truth of revelation in reliable verbal form...
...publisher named Simon sits down to play, in what he hopes will be uninterrupted silence, a new recording of Parsifal. He has heard no more than a few measures, however, when life-importunate, inconvenient, thoroughly messy life-comes knocking at his door. And it keeps knocking, in the form of relatives, friends, acquaintances, strangers, all afternoon, testing his carefully trained incapacity for human relationships, even simple understanding...
...down together two years ago to form a league known as the New Jersey-New York "7" must also have sensed a basketball boom in the offing; and the instant rivalries springing up on both sides of the Hudson only accelerated the trend. The N.J.-N.Y. "7" includes not only Columbia but all the best Metropolitan area teams--Seton Hall, Manhattan, LIU, Fordham, a Rutgers squad that went 31-0 last year, Lou Carneseca's St. John's five, and a Princeton team that already has upset Notre Dame...