Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passable to very good. Ellery Akers plays Helen as an empty-headed Fanny Hill, rather than a regal queen whose face launches a thousand ships, and plays her well. David Evett's Menelaus is properly unctuous and opportunistic. And Michael Nach's frenetic sing-song servility as a Phyrigian slave introduces the comic tone which diminishes the tragedy of Orestes...
...staffers often slave 14 hours a day during summer vacation to research a debut article of three to five pages, knowing well that top editors will do their best to rip it apart. In his two years on the law review, a staffer can expect to write only about three pieces, though he will spend several hundred hours checking other writers' sources. On graduation, however, he has the most impeccable credentials: the case-hardened polish of a law-review...
Revolution Unlikely. Plucky Helen Suzman, sole parliamentary voice of South Africa's small, anti-apartheid Progressive Party, accurately called it "slave labor." Said she: "The government imagines the African as a disembodied pair of black hands to work for the whites...
...John Murrell was educated, and thought big. The son of a prostitute, he was taught by Mama to rob her clients while she had them in bed. One day, Murrell robbed his mother and set out on his own. He became a slave snatcher...
Pretending to be an Abolitionist, he talked slaves into running away with him, then sold them to another slaver. If the slave balked, Murrell killed him. At one point, Murrell spent a year in jail for horse stealing, where he was branded, whipped and pilloried. He came out determined to take his revenge on the whole South by fomenting a slave revolt-and getting some loot for himself during the fracas. He boasted: "I'll have the pleasure and honor of knowing that by my management I have glutted the earth with more human gore, and destroyed more property...