Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does Aladdin resign himself to his fate, as does a dishonest merchant, whose excuse for cheating the boy is. "It's my destiny." (Early in the play, a paradoxically liberated slave girl not only refuses to be sold to the dishonest merchant, but she helps an honest one to pay for her.) "Don't wait for angels to save you," the slave girl sings at the evening's end. "Make a home in the body God gave you. Alone." Aladdin, then, is the story of a boy whose "exile" from the material world keeps him honest, open and strong...
...Krupp armaments empire at Nuremberg; of heart disease; in Washington, B.C. Kaufman, who later served as a special master for the U.S. court of appeals, prosecuted the defendants on grounds of "waging aggressive war" against Jews and other civilians. He settled for convictions on charges of plunder and slave labor and sentences of up to twelve years...
Absinthe is the catalyst. It turns Verlaine (David Markay) violent and makes Rimbaud (Nicky Silver) into a satanic enfant terrible. Transforming his mentor into his slave, Rimbaud pries Verlaine loose from his wife and son. The rest of their tempestuous saga is fairly accurately chronicled in the production at off-Broadway's La Mama Theater. The play is flawed, but it is amazing that British Playwright Hampton (The Philanthropist) wrote it when he was only 18. He was obviously drawn to Rimbaud as a fin-de-sicle spiv, and Silver plays him that way. Markay's Verlaine...
...They've got to either starve them into the underground, or stick a gun to someone's head to make them work in those mines," Mabeta says. Accident rates in the uranium mines are high, working conditions are abominable, living conditions are almost as bad, and wages are slave-wages. "It's like working in a large bowl of oatmeal," explained Stan Barnhill, director of New Mexico mining operations for Gulf Oil. The worst part is that after breakfast it gets worse. Uranium miners have one of the highest disease rates in industry--by low estimates...
...John Skow's story "In Missouri: A Beastly Display" [Jan. 19]-was beastly in more ways than one. His description of the animal auction was grimly reminiscent of slave sales in the antebellum South, conducted for much the same reason: "pleasure" and profit. Today more and more concerned people hope that the slavery of animals eventually will be viewed with the same disgust, and condemned with the same moral righteousness, as human chattel...