Word: slaving
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...fear that scholarship may become a slave to politics in the United States has been intensified over the past two years. Operation Camelot, a study of the causes of insurgency in underdeveloped nations, was cancelled by President Johnson after disclosure that the project was being financed by the Army provoked a political tempest in Chile. Another furor greeted reports that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved with a Michigan State University technical assistance program in South Vietnam...
Childie (Eileen Atkins) is a long, pale taffy pull of a girl with the cringing whine of an eternal sycophant and the wily compliance of a slave. At the arbitrary whim of Sister George, Childie must kneel and kiss the hem of her master's skirt, drink her dirty bath water or chew and swallow one of her soggy cigar butts. Childie's fraud is that while she plays the lesbian, she lusts after men and cheats on Sister George...
Only a few spectators were on hand in the slave-built courthouse in Hayneville, Ala., when two by now famed cases involving the shooting and murder of civil rights workers came to trial last week. From their relaxed air it was plain that few in Hayneville expected any convictions...
...Truth & Love." Lillian Smith was descended from slave-owning Georgia pioneers who fought the Seminoles; she was born and brought up in Jasper, Fla., which could have been Maxwell, the community that she anatomized in Strange Fruit. "We were small-town people who lived in a large, relaxed way," she recalled. After World War I, her father lost his prosperous mills and turpentine stills, moved back to north Georgia to open the state's first private summer camp for young ladies on Old Screamer Mountain outside Clayton...
...most of all. The "Carosello of the Roses," for example, is a dazzling sword fight between six horsemen who try to slash short-stemmed roses from each other's helmets. The "Coliseum" num ber is even more savage. It opens with a gladiator whipping a half-clad "Roman slave," winds up with two four-horse chariots racing madly around the ring to see who can get to the victim first. The winner has the honor of tying the slave behind his chariot and dragging him across the arena and through the exit at full gallop. The violence...