Word: slave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since the first slave ships unloaded their human cargo 360 years ago, black Americans have witnessed a succession of determined immigrants -- Germans, Irish, Jews, Italians -- weather discrimination to achieve a measure of acceptance and economic success that far surpassed their own. Once again the pattern is repeating itself. With a mixture of animosity and admiration, and no small dose of resentment, blacks are watching the new immigrants from Asia and Latin America flourish where blacks have not. Already the median household income of Koreans, Vietnamese, Haitians, Cubans and Mexicans has climbed past that of blacks...
...Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music, just as his cruel "medical experiments" defiled science and his whole life defiled philosophy. He defiled Germany...
Pale, thin and nervous, Dan Nichols testified that his father had taken the initiative in the alleged crimes as in all else. He offered little that explained how he had become a slave to his father's will. The old- er man, now thin and beardless, offered at least some illumination when he described one of his techniques for persuading his child to follow his own antisocial ways. Said he: "I hit him on the forehead with my fist. I thought that was the safest way--that I'd break my hand before I had hurt him." Nichols admitted...
...picaresque ramblings of Huck (Daniel Jenkins), who runs away from the enslavements of civilization, and his friend Jim (Ron Richardson), a literal runaway slave, have been pared into a purposeful narrative without diminishing the aura of spontaneity. William Hauptman's book also sustains Twain's deeper exploration of how a society could view slavery as normal and regard assisting a runaway as a crime against property. The story starts slowly and wobbles in tone, but achieves the original's deft mix of social comment, slapstick farce, heartrending melodrama and boy's own tale of danger. Big River, which started...
Hughes immediately grabbed for his yellow legal pad and scratched out a memo to Robert A. Maheu, a former FBI agent who served as his executive slave...