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...visiting VIPs included Actress Helen Hayes, 87; Presidential Crony and Crooner Frank Sinatra, 72; Bandleader Lionel Hampton, 75; and Charlton Heston, 64. In keeping with the host city's culinary tastes, the kitchen at Heston's hotel prepared a little something for his arrival. The actor, who played a slave in Ben Hur, entered his room to be greeted by a 3- ft.-high statue of a chariot, sculpted entirely out of tallow...
...lesson for the undergraduates then that money and morality are emphatically divorced--does it have to be that way? Before the Civil War in this country those not necessarily in favor of slavery, but sympathetic to the slave interests, defended their inactivity by pointing to the obvious and apparently telling fact that there was simply too damn much money tied up in it. The sacred, almighty dollar once again! Our own comfort before everything...
Intra-racism among Blacks does exist, and it is a problem that can be traced back to slave days, when darker-skinned Blacks were forced to work in more strenuous jobs than lighter-skinned Blacks. For years, some Blacks have straightened their hair, lightened their skin, and more recently changed their eye color to blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty. The problem has never been so clearly portrayed on screen as it was in Lee's movie...
Jimmy Swaggart and other television evangelists were the first victims. "They should have an 11th commandment," he said. "Thou shalt not play 'pirate and the slave girl' in cheap motels...
During one lecture, Thernstrom discussed recent scholarship that emphasized the positive ways slaves adjusted to their conditions, such as the development of a distinctive slave community and the growing importance of slave families. These seem more like statements of fact than insensitivity. Thernstrom never said that slavery was good; he merely spoke about different approaches scholars have taken to the subject. One may not agree with those viewpoints, but there is no reason why students should not be exposed to them...