Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed a new film star: Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, whose craft in the ring has kept him on top of the fight game for years, whose craft on a raft got him successfully through a screen test for the role of Jim, the runaway slave, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
...Spain's greatest 20th century novelists; yet many of the elements of Shanti Andia have an old-fashioned ring. The story is laid along the Basque seacoast of the igth century. There is a duel, a mutiny, piracy, the slave trade, an escape from prison, changed identities, a kidnaoing, even buried treasure. The hi?h adventure is made believable by the style-dry, direct, understated. But the excitement is only incidental to the story's main theme, which is Shanti's lifelong pursuit of truth and his stoic acceptance of whatever roadblocks fate...
...three-month search by the tribe's council of elders, Mbarnoti is a big (6 ft., 180 Ibs.), 28-year-old schoolteacher who speaks excellent English and whose only ambition-until the elders tapped him last September-was to go to England to study. The son of a slave freed by French Roman Catholic missionaries, Edward herded cattle until he was nine, then, as his father's "love son" (or favorite), was sent to school. Converted to Catholicism, he ignored most of the various age rituals of the Masai (e.g., Masai aged 17-27 take turns sleeping...
After Tamerlane's death, violence and cruelty still bloodied the sands under warring Oriental despots, as Tartars, Mongols, Persians, Baluchis, Russians, Arabs and Chinese fought for supremacy. Western "unbelievers," plying the Golden Road to Samarkand, often ended in the slave auctions. Later, as the ground was disputed by Britain and Russia, captured Englishmen were beheaded, or tortured in deep "bug pits," crawling with scorpions and sheep ticks...
...adviser to the Ministry of Education and began agitating for a progressive school system in Greece. Like Xenocrates' shoe, she argued, the old system was of good, polished leather but it no longer fit the foot. "Now science has invented the machine which Aristotle sought to replace the slave," she said, and instead of segregating intellectual and manual skills in separate high schools, Greece should restore the classic ideal of "harmony," teach knowledge and technique to both hand workers and brain workers...