Word: remus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story is narrated, Uncle Remus style, 75 years" later when Harlem is an old and established nation like Nigeria and Ghana. The narrator was a Harlem militiaman in the days of derring-do, but now he is full of "Well, honey's" and "byembys." The children at his knee are snotty little know-it-alls with African nationalist names: Jomo, Sekou, Mboya. But "Grandpa" fascinates them with stories of how Harlemites resisted all threats and blandishments, how they were impervious even to Radio Free Harlem, over which "Washington, D.C., Rose" seductively urged them to return to the comforts, clean...
Miller, a white man who lived in Harlem for five years, has mastered the vernacular, which in its own way is as eccentric as Uncle Remus'. He has also distinguished the different Harlem personality types-his way of saying that Negroes are people, too. And he has managed to show that even the nation's No. 1 problem is good for an occasional laugh...
...dispenses more medical advice than the A.M.A. Journal, more ribaldry than Boccaccio, more jokes than Joe Miller, more animal stories than Uncle Remus, more faith than Oral Roberts. It is published in 13 languages and 40 editions, not to mention one for school children and two for the blind.* Convicts in U.S. prisons get 50,000 copies a month free. It goes to more than 100 countries and outsells all other monthly magazines in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, Venezuela-and, of course, the U.S. Last week the Reader's Digest...
According to the historians of antiquity, Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus as a hangout for the delinquent youth of early Iron Age Latium, and was given permanence by the rape of 527 Sabine women. The traditional founding date is April 21, 753 B.C.-but the historians have long been fidgety about the exactness of that anniversary. Last week modern Rome's Department of Antiquities and Fine Arts showed proof that Rome had inhabitants several hundred years before the Romulus mob ever touched a Sabine woman...