Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call me Clay?" he screamed. "You know my right name is Muhammad Ali. It takes an Uncle Tom Negro to call me by my slave name...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit is fussy and frenetic, but Comedian Zero Mostel saves the play as Pseudolus, a conniving, overstuffed Roman slave who would sell his own soul to buy his freedom...
Crispus Attucks. Negroes have fought alongside white Americans since 1638, when Massachusetts settlers battled the Indians. Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave, was the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, the prelude to the Revolutionary War, and some 186,000 Negroes marched with the blue in the Civil War. Yet they were nearly always segregated and distrusted in combat. In World War I, the Navy used them only as messmen, while the Marine Corps excluded them altogether. In World War II, though a few Negro units distinguished themselves in combat, Negroes in all the services were mostly confined to supply...
...also a bleary eye, for composers invariably slave over their scores until the last possible minute, and then Arnstein and his eight copyists must labor round the clock. It can get tedious, but at the rate of $2.40 a page, Arnstein is not complaining: his copying of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, for instance, ran to more than 2,500 pages...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit is fussy and frenetic, but Comedian Zero Mostel saves the play as Pseudolus, a conniving, overstuffed Roman slave who would sell his own soul to buy his freedom...