Word: rubberize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Decked out in a black hood and ghostly rubber mask, Henry C. Quillen '00 wants to be the voice of the people. More accurately, he wants to scream for them...
...young shipping executive named Edmund Dene Morel stands on the shipping docks of Antwerp, Belgium. Amidst the hustle and bustle of ships destined for the Congo, he meticulously records trade statistics for his employer, the shipping firm Elder Dempster. As Morel watches the sailors unload case after case of rubber and ivory from the incoming ships, he suddenly notices that the numbers don't match up. In these brief moments, standing on the dock in Antwerp, Morel finds himself amidst one of the largest slave-operations of this century...
Hochschild's curiosity was indeed tremendous--King Leopold's Ghost is an extraordinarily dense work filled with Steamboat schedules, diary entries, calculations of the price of harvesting rubber from 1897 to 1904 in exact francs per kilo, and fantastical newspaper headlines from various countries. Yet Hochschild's carefully controlled pen never allows the data to dominate the story; he integrates the information into a fluid narrative style. This story is far from a series of dry laundry lists. Hochschild begins each chapter with a vivid character portrait that provides an accessible segue into the heart of the story...
...scientific, which should serve as means of information and aid to travelers...and ultimately, by their humanizing influences, to secure the abolition of the traffic in slaves." Stanley was the first to betray this rhetoric in service to Leopold by relentlessly pursuing the wealth of ivory and, later, rubber...
...most constantsubject in Bak's work. A prayer passages describesits importance: "It [the Torah] is a tree of Lifefor those who grasp it." Figures struggle to savethe trees; to save history and an uprooted people.Trees are carted through the landscapes, suspendedby string from an unknown origin, braced,nourished by rubber tubes and held by human arms.The trees find a way to grow again in each of thepaintings, even if by only one leaf, welcoming thebirds. This is the manifestation of Bak's vision;the song of hope of a new life...