Word: haitianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white man's burden," if it involved ruthless exploitation in fact, was in theory at least a fifty percent altruistic process. It has given way to an open and unashamed "dollar diplomacy" for which there can be no excuse on other than selfish grounds. The Marines putting down Haitian and Nicaraguan "bandits" and the Japanese subduing Chinese "bandits" are instruments of similar policies. Manifest destiny calls and kindly paternalism answers with guns if need...
...group of stalking zombies, enemies whom he has devitalized by black magic, interred, disinterred and enslaved. With expressions of frozen agony, like figures in a waxworks they shuffle woodenly about on Lugosi's horrid errands. Meanwhile John Harron has found a priest, Joseph Cawthorn, who knows about Haitian voodoo worship. Together they find the fabulous castle. They save Madge Bellamy, vanquish evil by the power of love, horse sense and blackjacks...
...combines voodoo murder prac tice and zombie resurrection, proposing that a zombie is a man who is still alive but whose soul and brain have been killed by remote hypnosis. Cinema zombies are oddly hypnotized men, more credible to cinemaddicts than true resurrected corpses, such as fabulously stalk the Haitian jungles...
With 57 nations participating (each represented by numerous delegates) there were at one time last week only five delegates present in the Conference hall while ostensibly important work was going on. The longest speech of the Conference thus far was made by Haitian Delegate Constantin Mayard who, in the course of 7,000 words, happily said that in Haiti, "the Hoover good-will policy has been instituted...
Zombie, Mr. William Seabrook's romantic fibs about far-off places do no one any harm, have certainly not harmed Zombie, whose playwright (Kenneth Webb) seems to have read Author Seabrook's The Magic Island. Haitian zombies are those unfortunate people who have been resurrected from the grave and placed in peonage by villainous masters. With one of these voodooistic overlords a family of white planters comes in contact, thus giving Zombie its motivation. For the most part wretchedly acted (including the work of Miss Pauline Starke, deep-voiced onetime film actress) and beset with deplorably written dialog, Zombie...