Word: slave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sally Quinn is certainly not a loser [July 7]. The losers are the fine, competent, hard-working women in American journalism who slave to have themselves taken seriously and then watch supposedly responsible news mags like TIME turn a twiddle-headed meatball into a princess of the "mediacracy...
...called Spandauer Tagebücher (Spandau Diaries). Appearing in serialized form in the West German daily Die Welt beginning next week, the Diaries cover Speer's years as an inmate in West Berlin's Spandau War Crimes Prison for forcing millions of non-Germans to work as slave laborers in the Third Reich's factories during World...
...uncertain flickers of semitransparent shadows." Many biographers have attempted to draw that chiaroscuro character, most recently Fawn Brodie in her Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate Biography. The result has been an overemphasis of the difficult side of his character: the spiky Freudian dimension, his relationship with Sally Hemmings, a mulatto slave who may have borne Jefferson seven children, his epic ambivalence toward blacks and slavery. Indeed, in his one full-length book, Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson was capable of declaring that Negroes were in their reason and imagination much inferior to whites and even that they smelled...
British Critic Sir Denis Brogan liked to tell about an incident that happened just after President Andrew Jackson died. A visitor attending his funeral asked one of Jackson's slaves whether he thought the general would go to heaven. The slave replied, "He will if he wants to." Brogan added the moral: General Jackson was and is a symbol of the typical American...
...logs arranged like benches beneath towering elms, an enraptured, mostly young and blue-jeaned audience listens as Bessie Jones, a spirituals singer, talks about the songs her slave grandfather used to sing in the cotton fields in Virginia. As her vibrant, mellow voice lifts into song ("I'm going to lay down my life for my Lord"), the young people clap their hands in rhythm...