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...nickname used by more than one radicalized black. The original Cinque was an African who in 1839 led a revolt aboard the slave ship transporting him to the U.S. The New York Post noted last week that the plot of Black Abductor, a novel of politics and pornography published in 1972, closely resembles the Hearst kidnaping. In the book, an heiress-coed named Patricia is held for ransom by a racially mixed group of radicals in America's "first political kidnaping...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou, Land Without Bread, and Simon of the Desert, Feb. 7, 7:30, Ganga Zumba (about a slave rebellion in Brazil), Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. BAKER LIBRARY, B-SCHOOL, Sam Peckinpah's Ballad of Cable Hogue...
...complex tale. Born a slave in Louisiana, she sets forth with a group of freedmen and -women for Ohio after Emancipation. Only she and a boy named Ned (whom she raises as her son) escape massacre by vigilantes determined to keep her people in their place -that is, in the old slave quarters of the plantations. Indeed, it is to this world that she retreats to work as a field hand in order to support the child. She escapes briefly when she marries a dashing black cowboy and goes to Texas, where he has a good life as a broncobuster...
Snobbery is no slave to the pull of gravity. It can move from the bottom up as well as from the top down. Take, for example, the case of the novelist and short-story writer Louis Auchincloss. In part because he is widely read, he has been consistently snubbed by what is conveniently called the critical community. Auchincloss, 56, a graduate of Groton and Yale and a practicing Wall Street lawyer, writes mainly about the declines and cushioned falls of good-family New Yorkers. He is a lucid, confident and tidy observer of this small community; yet many critics (expecting...
...work "an anti-Soviet lampoon sent abroad by Mr. Solzhenitsyn in the guise of a New Year gift." Far from being a lampoon, the book is a meticulously documented account of the agony of millions of innocent people who, like Solzhenitsyn himself, were imprisoned in the vast "archipelago" of slave-labor camps...