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...jailed again on charges of possession of a homemade bomb and receiving stolen property. Paroled, he was later arrested and convicted of robbery and assault and sentenced to five years to life. He calls himself Cinque, after an African who led a successful uprising aboard a slave ship off the coast of Cuba...
Steamy Tale. Another tumid exercise in staged libidinousness is Sebastian, by the company's resident choreographer, Vincente Nebrada. This is a steamy little tale of a Moorish slave in 17th century Venice who loves a courtesan who loves his owner-prince, and who is eventually skewered to death by the prince's evil sisters in the Venetian equivalent to a voodoo ceremony. As the luckless, lovelorn slave, an expressive young dancer named Christopher Aponte is called upon to perform a sensuous duet with the courtesan's red cloak, leaving the unfortunate impression that he is secretly...
...beverages." In the hectic modern world, hundreds of millions of people drink liquor, beer or wine for enjoyment, solace and tranquillity. Yet today, as it has throughout history, alcohol is also troubling mankind. For in almost every society, there are those who cannot enjoy alcohol without becoming its slave...
...Supreme Court strike down the anti-insurrection law under which he was arrested. Other civil-rights workers had only slightly less eventful summers, and most came back to Harvard to tell about them. "Although a hundred years have passed since the Civil War, the Negro is virtually a slave in Baker County," Elizabeth Holtzman '62, then a first-year law student, now a U.S. Representative from Brooklyn, wrote in The Crimson. "It cannot be said, however, that the whites are free. Feeding on sadism, glorying in the license the color allows, they lead a depraved existence. Illiteracy, ignorance, poverty...
They merely reflect the class nature of the slave-owning aristocracy of his own epoch...