Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aged friends of his uncle's. These two drop by regularly to talk and reminisce; they prove themselves remarkable founts of memory, particularly Miss Lissie, who confides that she has lived in countless incarnations dating back to the dawn of time. Relating her experiences as a slave girl being transported to America, she interrupts herself to warn Suwelo, "You do not believe I was there? I pity...
...regents were responding to a series of obnoxious acts by white students. Last fall the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity staged a mock slave auction, complete with some pledges in blackface. More recently, white male students have trailed black female students, shouting, "I've never tried a nigger before." Some civil libertarians have complained, however, that the new rule violates constitutional guarantees of free speech, no matter how irresponsibly that right is exercised...
...still a country of class struggle," wrote historian Claude Mazauric in the Communist Party newspaper L'Humanite. "The message of 1789 . . . is to build a society unconstrained by multinational capitalism." SOS-Racisme, a civil rights group, for example, will celebrate with a rally for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who led an 18th century Haitian rebellion against French colonialism. A group of prominent Parisian socialists is agitating to rename part of the Rue St.-Honore after Robespierre. "All revolutions have excesses," explains former Health Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered suspect...
...give money to E4D, you're just giving Harvard money anyway (or Phillips Brooks House, if Harvard doesn't divest by 2003). But I suppose E4D acts as a slave for those rich limousine liberals who want to give some of their millions to Harvard, without offending their sensitive, trendy, politically-correct activist consciences...
...plans for its valedictorian: by 1940 he would be Governor of New Jersey and "leader of the colored race in America." As Martin Bauml Duberman observes in his compassionate biography, extravagant predictions were still being made for Paul Robeson 21 years later. The son of an escaped slave had already risen to international celebrity as a singer, actor and public speaker, and no limits were set on his future. Hardly anyone foresaw that he was standing on the edge of an irreversible decline...