Word: master
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who live there have no difficulty voting for conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, or voting against open-housing measures. But many seem to find it difficult to accept Wallace's radicalism, with its unabashed divisions between "them" and "us." At any rate, Wallace, the master of noise and turmoil, was unnerved by the unaccustomed silence. "It's real difficult for me to speak to an orderly crowd," he confessed to 3,500 aerospace workers near Los Angeles. "It really throws me, if you want to know the truth...
EVEN the remarkable depiction of the master-slave relation between the slave ship's apparent captain, Don Benito Cereno (William Young), and his apparent slave Babu (James Spruill) fails to compensate for the inappropriate tone. The image of Babu as a happy, able and devoted servant seduces Delano into unwitting contradiction of his American democratic precepts: "Sometimes I think we overdo our talk of freedom./ If you looked into our hearts, we all want slaves...
...turns out that Babu is Cereno's master, that he led the blacks in killing their masters and most of the ship's crew. He is using Cereno in order to capture Delano and force him to pilot the slaves back to Africa...
When the blacks openly indicate their power Delano still can't see them as anything but a threat to his life and a danger to his comfortable preconceptions. He presides while his sailors obliterate them with superior firepower. Babu, the last surviver, petitions Delano for mercy: "Yankee master, understand me. The future is with us." Over the protests of Cereno and Perkins ("We want to save someone") and while the lights dim to blackness, Delano empties his pistol into the black's body...
Some requirements--as yet undetermined--will have to be satisfied for advanced degrees (FCC plans to offer both bachelor's and master's programs in the future...