Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American ideals and will take his proper place in the struggle against Communism. Says Burnham: "I have no sympathy and little patience with those inverse Philistines . . . who sneer so easily at business and businessmen . . . There are motives more injurious than the search for profit; and [businessmen] did not need slave camps to people their frontiers. If this country is 'basely materialistic' in its 'philosophy,' then let it be noted that such materialism is the cause of less suffering and more joy than most idealisms which history records...
...prime delight of the show is Pearl Bailey. As a runaway slave named Virginia in Virginia and Connecticut in Connecticut, she manages to be now all charm, now all perkiness, now all rhythm. She gives Arms and the Girl its one sock number when she sings There Must Be Something Better Than Love...
...eschewed frills and cliches, wasted no time in getting to the heart of what mattered. He was an individualist of a rare kind: he wanted other people to be individualists too. He will be missed, if only because he kept begging modern man not to become an ultra-modern slave...
...Will Be Heard." Garrison became an abolitionist hero in 1830 when, as a young Baltimore editor, he denounced a slave trader in print. Fined $50 and costs for his "gross and malicious libel," he went to jail because he lacked the money. In jail he. wrote a thundering pamphlet about his case-and his career as a reformer had begun...
...slave owners knew an enemy when they saw one. Georgia's legislature offered $5,000 for Garrison's arrest and conviction "under the laws of the State." Mississippi slave owners made up a purse for his capture. Georgetown, D.C. passed a law forbidding Negroes to read his paper. Garrison was hated in Boston too: he kept harping on the guilt of northern ship owners for transporting the Negroes in the first place. Finally, the free Negroes of Boston organized to protect him; each night a bodyguard, armed with cudgels, trailed him home. Even so, in 1835 he came...