Word: slaving
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Deng called for divestment out of a desire to prevent the sort of widespread bloodshed he witnessed as a slave during another civil war between north and south during the 1980s and 1990s. He said he felt that war was exacerbated by a lack of international awareness...
...Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan could have hardly imagined their most beloved operetta The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty as performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players under the direction of Ashley A.P. Horan ’05. It is a delightful romp of song and dance, with a flamboyant (and let us not forget, glitter-chest) Pirate King who immediately calls to mind images of Captain Jack Sparrow...
...commencement, but not so much when it offends an entire community. I have to put the word “master” in quotes because, yes, it makes me cringe every time I say it/see it/think about it. It essentially encompasses the horror of the institution of slave and master that our country was conceived by, yet the College maintains this derogatory title in each House...
...Brother Malcolm, a “house Negro” worked inside the slavemaster’s house as a domestic servant and pathologically “loved his master more than he loved himself.” He contrasted this with the field Negro, the masses of the slave population. These slaves never got the benefits of living in the master’s house—the food, clothes, shelter, feeling of superiority—and they were infinitely more bitter at their plight than the slaves in the house. As he would...
...fodder for Dems' eternal squabble over what they should stand for: moderates can claim Kerry was too liberal to woo swing voters; lefties will say he was too inside-the-Beltway to energize the angry, disillusioned masses; and the increasingly unbalanced Ralph Nader will declare him another loathsome Republicrat slave to corporate America...