Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publication last August, Not By Bread Alone has been eagerly seized upon by millions of young Russians who find, beneath the technical jargon which covers many of its pages, a hidden symbolism, a new message, best expressed in the words of its hero Dmitry Lopatkin, back from the slave camp: "Somebody who has learned to think cannot ever be fully deprived of freedom...
...canal cost 453 million francs to build. More than a hundred million cubic feet of earth were moved in ten years. De Lesseps was accused of employing slave labor by using the corvée (impressment of workers), but when the practice was halted and the fellahin laid down their primitive picks and baskets, the work went on faster than before with free labor and the rapid development of steam-powered excavators. De Lesseps' real roadblocks lay not in the sand and rock of the Sinai desert but in the chancellories and salons of Europe. In France envious rivals...
...world of music had found a slave ? one who would, if he could, become its master. Jennie Bernstein's little buster started slowly, but at 20 he came busting out of Boston's unfashionable suburbs with alarming drive and talent. The tone for his spectacular career was set with the now legendary incident, 13 years ago, when, as a virtually unknown, 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, he triumphantly substituted for ailing Bruno Walter ? without rehearsal. "Like a shoe string catch in center field," explained the New York Daily News. "Make...
...Psyche myth into strange new shapes. The action takes place in the barbaric Kingdom of Glome, somewhere north of civilized ancient Greece. The central figures are the beauteous Princess Psyche, a symbol of sacred love, and her ugly sister Orual, a symbol of profane love. By contrast, their Greek slave tutor, Lysias the Fox, is a symbol of the rational, worldly skeptic of all ages. The Fox tells the princesses that their country's religion, which revolves around a shapeless stone earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies. But Ungit's priests bully the king...
...SLAVE LABOR PAY will finally be handed out by I. G. Farben liquidators, who are breaking up the former German chemical cartel. After long, bitter battle in German courts, liquidators will pay some $7,000,000 to about 4,000 World War II forced laborers, many of whom now live...