Word: slaving
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...understood. He had his doubts. He had his defeats. He had his setbacks. But through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a people. It is because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we are no longer divided, North and South, slave and free. It is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest, that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people - as Americans...
Singer's radically utilitarian brand of moral philosophy has its work cut out for it. In the absence of arduous cranial wrestling matches, reason may indeed be, as Hume famously put it, "slave of the passions...
...libretto, by Tan Dun and Chinese-American novelist Ha Jin, adheres to the contours of The Emperor's Shadow, but with a different ending: Jianli cuts out his own tongue, and the anthem he leaves to be sung is a slave song we heard at the beginning of Act 2. The writers have trouble marshalling the movie's dramatic pull; their lyrics don't put the personal conflicts across with the same clarity and intensity. Domingo, a trouper at 64, has the notes down but struggles with his enunciation. (Even though he's singing in English, we needed the subtitles...
...fact, these kind of festivities often became dangerous from the point of view of elites in society. You can see that in the European Carnival tradition, which was beginning by the 16th century to spill over into riots or uprisings even against the powers that be. Or the slave rebellions of the Caribbean in the 19th century, which suspiciously oftentimes coincided with Carnival. The people were using these occasions to express protest or rebellion...
...moment of recklessness, Buford, a journalist with no culinary training, became a kitchen slave--his words--to Mario Batali. It takes a big talent to render in words the animal, essentially anti-verbal experience of eating. It takes a big man to describe the hilarious humiliations to which an apprentice chef is subjected. Buford is both. He's also lucky: the brilliant, insatiable, demonic Batali is the kind of character writers sell their souls...