Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflicting characters of Jason and Medea provide the same interplay between real and fabulous. Medea, leaving her homeland with her new lower Jason, purposefully kills her brother and cuts him into pieces. These she carefully deposits in the path of her pursuing father, who must pause to pick up each bit and prepare it for burial. Thus she escapes with the eminently human Jason, a healthy young man who beds Medea with a cheeky grin at the camera...
...number of black Angolans shipped away from their homeland in Portugese vessels is estimated at four million. Many came to America to work the Southern plantations. Although black clients were established in Angola to deliver up their brothers, almost ceaseless struggle against the slave trade was waged by the native peoples...
ALTHOUGH the International trading of Angolans had ended, the Portugese continued to run their colony on the principle of enforced slave labor. The new trade in Ivory, rubber and minerals was built on the backs of the Angolese who had remained in their homeland. Needed agricultural goods were produced on slave plantations for the home market. Although Portugal's empire was tawdry by comparison with those of mightier European nations, the Portugese could not bear to give it up. As one trader-colonist wrote in 1882, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed are king. As poor...
...Kadar was in the midst of shooting a movie when the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia scattered his cast and crew. Kadar himself wandered over to America where he did a miserable adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Angel Levin. When the tension in his homeland eased, Kadar returned to Prague, regathered his company, and completed without the slightest visible ripple in continuity a film of extraordinary beauty and complexity...
Under the Law of Return, Israel offers citizenship and a new homeland to any Jew. Thus there is no question that the vast hordes of those leaving the Soviet Union will all be accepted. But the immigration for which Israelis and Jews elsewhere have so passionately agitated is beginning to pose serious problems for Israel. Taking care of the immigrants has put an almost impossible burden on Israel's already strained economic resources. This year the government has allotted $650 million to provide for newcomers; even the sacrosanct defense budget had to be slashed to help find the money...