Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Michael Back, owner of Backsberg, a top South African estate. At least one prestigious California wine company is hoping to buy a Paarl farm. A score or so of local wine farmers have taken notable steps to democratize what has for centuries been an almost feudal system (historic slave-bell pillars can still be seen on some estates), and are giving their black and colored workers direct shares in the businesses or land to develop...
...Smothering," "stifling," a land of "mindless, slave-driven automatons"-these descriptors jump to the forefront of the stereotypical conservatory image. Obviously a bit distorted in their portrayal of the purely music-oriented education, these are the stereotypes that institutions like The Juilliard School seeks to dispel, and that prospective students must battle when weighing college against conservatory. A past enrollee in Juilliard's Pre-College Division, Tarumoto speaks from experience when she says, "All are true and untrue depending on what you are looking for in your education. Having an identity shaped almost solely by how good...
...grasp on "reality" begins to seem justified. Starting from the Spirit of Scandinavia Sardines, Harlan's train of thought takes off and plows through an existence where there is no boundary between the real and the unreal, the true and the untrue. From sardines she jumps to the slave-ships of the Middle Passage, to the fake Moroccan leather of the bag of the woman beside her to the mosquito on the cover of the woman's Scientific American...
...today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream...I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their...
...still possible to use such a term after the generations of hagiography and reinvention, was infinitely more interesting, one of the most complex and contradictory personalities of the century. His full name, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was memorably--and literally--translated into English by the novelist G.V. Desani as "Action-Slave Fascination-Moon Grocer," and he was as rich and devious a figure as that glorious name suggests...