Word: slave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...digression, Wild assailed the argument of Friedrich Nietzche concerning the "slave morality" of Christians. Saying that there was nothing passive about the Christian religion, Wild added, "to prepare one's own Cross is the most virile form of activity...
...Ph.D. candidates there is offered no short cut to finish their theses, but rather, a realistic basis for further research. The slave of diplomatic history will have the chance to watch the mechanism of the department of State turn over, while the political science devotee will learn the inside story of government-business relations. Every effort is made to get all government and private officers to help. Often, if proper field experience can only be had abroad, it is possible to travel...
...lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered a high-minded athlete who was painfully settling down at story's end to teach his compatriots...
...dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad was laid, Bolivar's rich bottomlands were an uninhabited jungle. The railroad, eager for customers along the route, but fearing that white men would die off under the hot summer sun, decided to try Negroes. Isaiah T. Montgomery, a onetime slave of Jefferson Davis, and his cousin Benjamin T. Green were induced to start a colony. Thus was founded the town of Mound Bayou. Last week every day was carnival in Mound Bayou, for it was celebrating its 50th anniversary as a self-governing 100% Negro community...
...Slave Ship is not for the squeamish. Its eight reels contain an incredible amount of knifing, jaw-punching, conking on the head, lashing in chains, shooting, slapping and assorted casual brutalities. Sometimes its violence is shrewdly planned and powerful; sometimes, particularly when Director Tay Garnett uses for comedy the same form of physical surprise which a moment earlier he was using for horror, it is inept. But the action is generally lusty and well-integrated. Best minor role: Mickey Rooney as the resolute, bewildered cabin boy whose loyalty veers hazardously between the brutal mate and the romantic skipper...