Word: oppressor
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...recognize the grievances of OSTWS as valid, although we doubt that "Birth of a Nation" is such potent propaganda that it would foment race prejudice among college students or that a majority of the students attending our meeting came to cheer on the white oppressor. OSTWS should remember that in addition to "Birth of a Nation" we announced a screening of "The Great Train Robbery." Both are very early silent American films. Each in its way is a landmark in the development of film-making; each represents prodigious advances in film technology, direction and cinematography. The subjects...
...also appears to be among the least neutral in his sympathies. Bouteflika's opening address scored imperialism in Southeast Asia, an obvious reference to the U.S. presence there. He attacked "hidden hands" on Cyprus. He congratulated Portugal, regularly scored in the past by U.N. members as a colonial oppressor, for "reconciliation with the cause of liberty" in granting independence to Guinea-Bissau, and suggested that other Western powers might profit by Lisbon's example. Introducing Bouteflika to Ford later, Secretary of State Kissinger jokingly told the President, "I have never known him to be impartial...
...indeed, you know us all and we know you - the oppressor, murderer and robber. And you have hunted and robbed and exploited us all. Now we are the hunters that will give you no rest...
...time-five acts, a lengthy ballet, historical fireworks, huge choruses, soulful solos. The story is set in 13th-century Palermo, where the French colonists are oppressing the Sicilian natives. Arrigo, one of the principal revolutionaries, discovers to his horror that he is the illegitimate son of the chief oppressor, Montforte. Not only does this news test his divided loyalties, but it ruins his romance with the fair Elena, who is sympathetic to the Sicilians. With loud cries of "Vendetta!" the Sicilians overthrow Montforte at the final curtain...
...based recognizably on the life and death of assassinated AID official Dan Mitrione, who was trained in the U.S. to operate in close undercover conjunction with the repressive police in Brazil and Uruguay. Montand is so good because this dream of a family man is so unconscious an oppressor, or rather he's brainwashed himself right into his business...