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When I was seven or eight years old, I went to a New York Philharmonic concert which Bernstein conducted in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The all-Tchaikovsky program included, among other works, the Marche Slave and the Pathetique Symphony--a pretty heavy agenda for a man in his early 60s, and for a child whose attention span never even lasted to the end of a single episode of "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood...

Author: By Rachel S. Manalili, | Title: Remembering Leonard Bernstein | 11/1/1990 | See Source »

...they dropped notes from a London hotel window saying they were being held captive. Seven other women who worked for the prince made similar claims. In 1982, the prince, his wife and their agents allegedly assaulted Miami police officers searching for a servant thought to be held as a slave. (The prince later sued, claiming the police were the ones who had been violent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Faustian Bargain | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Displeasure for the annual tribute to Columbuswas shared by several Native Americans at Harvard,who pointed to Columbus's notorious reputation asconquerer, slave trader and cruel dominator...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Newspaper Criticizes Columbus Celebration | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

...artifacts, oral histories and 1,500 photographs will attempt to tell the story of not only the mostly European arrivals who passed through Ellis Island but also the millions who came during other eras, from other places and through other points of entry: Africans hauled by force to Southern slave markets, Latin Americans who trekked northward, Asians who flew into San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Reopening The Gate of America | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...teachers and the like). Most were summarily executed or tortured to death. By the next morning, the Communist government had begun the complete evacuation of the cities, which Cambodia's new rulers regarded as cesspools of bourgeois corruption. Nearly all Cambodians -- men, women and children -- would be herded into slave-labor communes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam: Hout Seng's Long March | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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