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...invited him to do a study of the Negro in Philadelphia. After one and a half years of work he wrote The Philadelphia Negro, one of the first urban sociological studies in the world. At about the same time Harvard published his doctoral dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, as the first volume of the Harvard Historical Studies...
...Danville, Va., 14 civil rights leaders are awaiting trial under a state law that makes it a crime to conspire to incite Negroes to "acts of violence and war" against whites, or vice versa. A relic of slavery days, the law was designed to prevent slave revolts...
...every mother's son who ever sold his labor for a sad little living. With quiet poignance, with gay and gentle humor, with gradual but ultimately pulverizing irony, the director investigates the well-known social process that begins with a free soul and ends with a wage slave...
...Republican dinner, he said: "Even the liberals have to recognize that what we have now in Washington is a would-be king and a want-to-be dynasty, not a President and a party." Blasting Kennedy for failure to exploit the "great cracks" that have appeared "across the entire slave empire of the Communist tyrants," he ad-libbed: "I'm beginning to wonder about this man who just three years ago downgraded the idea that we could achieve peace through visits and talks and goodwill missions, and who is engaged almost around the clock with visits and talks...
Titled The Sicyonian, the play seems to be about the troubles of a girl named Philomene who wanted to be recognized as a citizen of Sicyon, a city in Greece. She was kidnaped by pirates, sold as a slave to a kind old man who turned out to be her true father. This complicated matters because by then she was in love with the old man's son, her brother. Professor Bataille says that some of the play's fragments are magnificent, but too many of them are missing for a full reconstruction of the unlikely plot...