Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space slave-one of TIME'S prophets -should have said: "Have words, cannot unravel." This nitwit lit crit dissembled a vile mess of subliminal nonsense to suggest that Aldous Huxley is a sub-pessimistic old fuddy-daddy. He treated Huxley's prognostications, fulfilled or unfulfilled, with the strangled insincerity of a man who likes to say "say it ain't so," so he says it ain't. The thought of this compulsive lop-shifter of ideas and neologisms frothing his prophylactic at the dreaming West is downright rummy...
James Matisoff's conception of Pozzo lies somewhere between the two, and his presence on the stage gives the production more life and smoothness. As his slave Lucky, Terry Graham is at least adequate, but he should learn how to pant more convincingly...
...speech to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles added new terms for the two systems of economic development: "strategy of consent" and "strategy of duress." Pursuing the strategy of duress, he said, the rulers of Red China were creating a "vast slave state," wiping out China's traditional culture and values. "The inevitable waste product of economic development by duress," said Dulles, "is the crushing of millions of free spirits and their hope for a truly richer life. The important byproduct of the strategy of consent is human dignity and greater political freedom...
Amid outcries about freedom, characters die as if it were the last act of Hamlet; amid tirades against power, slave girls uncover and Caligula runs wild. If there is a unifying note in all this it is that the characters, whether male or female, slave or free, vile or virtuous, slain or spared, are orators one and all. So much oratory has its touches of eloquence, so much theatricalism its flashes of theater. But the play as a whole is lumberingly lurid, and Alvin Epstein's Claudius offers some adroit stammering that is more effective than anyone else...
Intransigence & Righteousness. The college today can look back on some turbulent early days. Oberlin was a way station on the Underground Railway, and once a sizable faculty mob swarmed ten miles to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...