Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles James Fox justified his schoolboy reputation. He grew up to be the greatest orator of his day, supported both the American and French Revolutions, urged abolition of the slave trade and self-government for Ireland. Sir Joshua Reynolds was experimenting with carmines when he painted him; they faded and left Fox jaundiced...
...play centers about a young Athenian (William T. Vasquez '52) who spends his father's money on a courtesan (Mary Frances Raphael '54). With the help of a crafty slave, the son for a while is able to hide his amorous activities from his father...
...found terror and its agent, the secret police. For fear of them and their informers, the Russians had become a nation of liars: "A sincere man . . . would pass for mad." For hatred of them, that could not be expressed, the Russians had become a society of mockers: "The slave . . . consoles himself for his yoke by quietly making fun of it." From the highest noble to the lowest serf, all Russians were equally in fear of the regime's power; all human life was equally worthless in the rule of terror...
...Grand Peregrination, by Maurice Collis. The 16th Century travels of the Marco Polo-like Portuguese, Fernao Mendes Pinto, whose Far East adventures cast him as soldier, merchant, pirate, slave, ambassador and Jesuit novice (TIME, March...
Alligators & Hot Resin. Pinto had at least nine lives, and needed all of them. He was five times shipwrecked, 13 times put to slave labor. In China he was kept for two days, waist-deep in water, in a cistern crawling with leeches. Another time he put in 26 days in a lice-infested prison cell. The Burmans tortured him by dropping hot resin on his skin. A humane man himself, Pinto decided that his tormentors were simply retaliating for the brutalities that rakehell Portuguese had first inflicted on them...