Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign to popularize the KGB with the Russian people. The purpose of the exercise is rather to raise the morale of the KGB, which employs some 750,000 people. They were naturally discouraged after Stalin's death when their power was sharply reduced, and most of the vast slave-labor camps they had manned for 25 years were disbanded. But there is much hope for the future, Abel believes, because the young people he now sees entering the KGB are displaying "exceptional stubbornness and persistence in learning from the work experience of their older comrades-the real masters...
Last month, Murray urged students at Fresno State College to ''kill all the slave masters," among whom he later counted President Johnson, Chief Justice Warren and Governor Reagan. A few days afterward he told students at S.F. State to bring guns on the campus for "self-defense...
...downgrade the set, as I'd like to, is doubtless to cross a few hundred thousand slave laborers. But Agassiz has a genuinely attractive proscenium, and one should no sooner replace it with yellow cardboard than paste floral wallpaper over the Sistine Chapel. Good notions run rampant through Pat Pilz's scenery, always to materialize several sizes too large, several colors too bright, and several pounds too collapsible. They have built the Great Wall of China where a picket fence was called...
Based on a short novel by Herman Melville, Benito Cereno confronts Yankee sea captain Amassa Delano with a Peruvian slave ship carrying 80 ominous Africans and four strangely behaved Spaniards, all victims of some unknown disaster, who alternately accept and ignore the American's patronizing assistance...
EVEN the remarkable depiction of the master-slave relation between the slave ship's apparent captain, Don Benito Cereno (William Young), and his apparent slave Babu (James Spruill) fails to compensate for the inappropriate tone. The image of Babu as a happy, able and devoted servant seduces Delano into unwitting contradiction of his American democratic precepts: "Sometimes I think we overdo our talk of freedom./ If you looked into our hearts, we all want slaves...