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...Spee, like the Fly, specialized in South American slave owners' sons for a while, earning the nicknames Spic Club and Spanish Fly, but again like the Fly, it now has a diverse membership. The Spee broke a strict club taboo and opened up its3
...Istanbul, but the principal sight will be the intricate maze of grandly decorated apartments. They include the gilded, rococo Hall of the Sultan, where reigning monarchs reclined on a brocaded couch to watch dancing girls perform. Near by are the royal baths, which featured marble floors, golden faucets and slave girls to assist the sultan in his bath. Then there are the gilded and inlaid bedchambers...
...oldest independent black state. His rule was characterized by both stability and a medicum of physical progress. By means of education and arm-twisting, Tubman did all he could to wipe out the differences between native tribesmen and the elitist Americo-Liberians (descendants of Liberia's freed-slave founders...
Totalitarian Fantasy. Naturally, Jones fails to note that Allah and Egypt's gods were divine sanctions for slave societies, and that many of the distinguished mortals he names learned their politics from the writings of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky. But why complicate the issue and disrupt Jones' totalitarian fantasies about white evil and righteous black revenge? At certain levels of his struggle to spread black cultural consciousness, hyperbole and distortion may be necessary. Jones' energetic campaigning for Kenneth Gibson, Newark's first black mayor, indicates that he is well aware of the ways in which real...
...Nobel Prizewinner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, survivor and permanent victim of Stalin's prison camps. In 1962, during Khrushchev's brief destalinization period, readers were suddenly introduced to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In a dark, spartan account, it told of the wretches who peopled the slave labor camps of Siberia, cleaved from society for uncommitted political sins, filled with what the author called "the fearlessness of those who have lost everything...