Word: mines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite Engelhard's hollow words about his concern for the "dignity of man" and "improved living conditions," the conditions in his mines were nearly as brutal as those of any other South African mine. Actions speak louder than words. Never by word nor deed did Engelhard condemn the migrant labor system which he enforced and from which he profited. He never once demanded an end to political repression. Engelhard may have been a philanthropist at home, but throwing money about does not absolve him of responsibility for the inhumane methods in which he earned that wealth. He may have contributed...
...expressed by the new Prime Minister is as much in the interests of South Africa as anything I can think of or suggest" (see First, also Secheba, February 1969). Despite Engelhard's hollow words about his concern for the "dignity of man" and "improved skills and living conditions," his mines were just as brutal and inhumane as any other South African mine. Actions speak louder than words. Never by word or by deed did Engelhard condemn the migrant labor system which he enforced and from which he profited. He never once demanded an end to political repression. He never once...
...Seven Masses, traditionally sung by the Sängerknaben, have been canceled; so has the State Opera's year-end performance of Puccini's Tosca. The reason: a 30-year-old federal law forbidding children under 14 to work for pay. The law was designed to prevent mine operators and the like from exploiting youngsters. But the city fathers were forced to rule that it also applies to the choir, a 480-year-old institution that remains one of the sturdiest pillars of Vienna's musical reputation...
...brother's, showed I was dead, too. And I knew it must be so because I knew where I had fallen and I felt no pain--not in that moment--and I knew with the bone-chilling certainty that most people are spared that, yes, death does come and mine had just touched...
...Harvard Is Mine...