Word: sambo
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...Driver John William George Samson, 57, known as "Sambo" to many of the boys, was experiencing a different kind of pride that night. Just a year before, the Chatham Traction Co. had given him a fine chiming clock in honor of 40 faithful years in their employ. As Samson mounted his double-decker bus last week, to take it once again over a run he knew as well as the back of his hand, he was looking forward to another company dinner the next night, at which he would rank as an acknowledged elder statesman among bus drivers...
Supposedly written in collaboration with Professor Henry S. Commager of Columbia, the book was attacked for its use of such phrases as "sambo" and "blacks...
...Sambo, whose wrongs moved the abolitionists to wrath and tears, there is some reason to believe that he suffered less than any other class in the South from its 'peculiar institution.' The majority of slaves were adequately fed, well cared for, and apparently happy...
Authors Morison and Commager were planning no changes. They felt that the passages were sound history, and that the phraseology properly reflected the spirit of the period they were describing. The objection to the word "black," said Morison was "frivolous." As for "Sambo," "it's quite a shock to find that that's offensive. It's been my own nickname in the family for years...
...salty for English dancers. While he was an R.A.F. intelligence officer stationed in Scotland, he had taken to reading the neurotic verses of French Poet Arthur Rimbaud, who went looking for the secrets of life in its sewers, via drugs and debauchery. A lot of what Rimbaud (rhymes with Sambo) had to say was "indecent," Ashton told himself; but perhaps he could put Rimbaud into successful ballet just the same. Ashton's countryman, Composer Benjamin Britten, had set nine songs from Rimbaud's Les Illuminations for tenor voice and string orchestra. Last month, with Britten's music...