Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American in India, whose great-grandfather was a Louisiana slave-owner, I have proclaimed the Negro issue in the U.S. a dying problem. I am indignant that a mob of Baltimore bigots should make me eat my words and, worse still, drag America's name . . . into the mud before my Indian associates . . . We abroad are the ones who have to answer to the world for such conduct. What possible answer can we give? (THE REV.) B. H. MILLER Poona, India...
...their Chinese allies have vowed to build the second largest. By ideology, the Communists are committed to the defeat of the West; they are dedicated men, and they have the H-bomb. On fundamentals they have not retreated one jot-on Germany, on Austria, on the satellites and the slave labor camps. Communist papers still spread hate of the U.S. while their diplomats talk placatingly...
...symphony's first and third movements were darkly pensive, shifty, and reflecting Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave as through a flawed windowpane. The scherzo thrummed along at top speed, flinging itself into several swirling climaxes before its few minutes were over. The finale opened with a grumpy subject, developed an Oriental flavor as the winds spun harsh-voiced arabesques, then fell into a heavy-booted Russian two-step. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos whipped the fine performance to an uproarious end that brought a storm of applause, a few cheers, and an approving comment from Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Vishinsky...
...prolific manufacturer of historical novels (Tap Roots, Goodbye, My Lady), who began at 20 as a Baptist minister, became a newspaperman (A. P., New York World-Telegram) until free-lance success in the late '30s allowed him to devote all his time to his facile tales of slave trading,dueling and boudoir derring-do; of a heart ailment; at Chapel Hill...
...work. Koestler confesses to a recurring dream in which he shouts warning of terrible danger to a crowd, but no one will listen. With his faculty for making his nightmares come true, he is now living in England, whose natives "believe . . . that prisons and firing squads [and] slave camps just 'do not happen' to ordinary people...