Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marrying Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, the mother of one of his pupils, when he was thrown into jail. It had come to the notice of the vigilant police that Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde's enormous wealth and social prestige rested wholly upon her very efficient management of a profitable white-slave trade. Since it was necessary to arrest somebody, the police, like the Oxford authorities, saw that Paul was their...
...process of cutting a 4½-hour play to 2½ hours' playing time, the editing has also been very drastic in places. The soliloquy 0 what a rogue and peasant slave am I, which is cut in the film, is about as happily dispensed with as half the forebrain, for in it Hamlet tries more desperately than at any other time to come to terms with himself. How all occasions do inform against me is important self-revelation and great poetry as well; but that, too, had to go-along with Fortinbras. Sometimes Olivier and his co-editor...
...audience is allowed to know less than it might about the Prince himself (nobody can ever know enough about him). It sees too little of his dreadful uncertainty, his numbed amazement over his own drifting, his agonized self-vilification. It understands too little of him as "passion's slave." Between the cutting and the conception of the role, it is small wonder that when, early in the play, Olivier comes to The time is out of joint; 0 cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right! he all but throws the crucial couplet away...
...House Compact. The New York Exchange was built on speculation; in early days it often seemed jerrybuilt. Wall Street (socalled because of the log wall that peg-legged Peter Stuyvesant had built) was a natural site for trading: near the docks at its foot, there had long been a slave market. There, in 1790, when the first U.S. Congress voted "public stock" to redeem the Continental scrip which had financed the Revolution, a lively trade in the U.S. "stock" sprang...
...secret agent, but he is pretty confused about which side he is on. The reader will share his confusion. But nothing much is left unexplained about Artillery's love life: he oscillates between fair, proud Beth (daughter of a wealthy merchant) and dark, passionate Dauna (a slave girl). In the big emotional climax, after buying Dauna in a slave mart, Artillery whips her for calling him "Master...