Word: slaving
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...Schwind, Jr. (Boss Mangan) has absolutely no idea what he is supposed to be doing on the stage, but I suppose it is not his fault, but rather director Charles H. Flowers'. Mangan the irresponsible, somewhat inept industrialist, is perhaps not the cigar-chomping, slave-driving type. But Schwind's Mangan was far too foppish, and the five or six accents he tried all reverted to the original pseudo-Exeter Academy...
This musical comedy is set in pagan Rome and is lewdly adapted from the plays of Plautus, who should really have been named Sub-Plautus. He was a genius at inventing endless slapsticky plot complications. The story is that Pseudolus (Zero Mostel), a slave, will be granted his freedom if he can secure as his master's bride a dumb blonde virgin (Preshy Marker) who has completed her basic training as a courtesan. After a dilatory start, George Abbott's pell-mell direction crosscuts from the chaste to the chase. Pseudolus must foil all the males...
...order those who are begotten on the side of either one of their parents of Indian or African blood," read the statute of the Dominican order in 17th century Peru. Thus, the lowly Martin de Porres, offspring of a dalliance between a Peruvian grandee and a freed Negro slave girl, could never aspire to full priestly status in the Dominican Convent of the Most Holy Rosary in Lima. He took this mortification humbly, and gave a selfless life of service to the friary and the city as a tertiary of the order. This week Pope John XXIII amended the slight...
...Thursday until noon on Easter. In imitation of St. Dominic, he lashed himself three times nightly with a whip whose hooked ends were weighted with iron. Once, when the convent fell into debt, he suggested that his superior could raise some of the money by selling him as a slave; the offer was prudently refused...
...even before his father was disgraced. He drank more heavily than ever, was busted from the air force, reportedly killed a woman while driving drunk. Rumors swirled about his fate: he was in a sanatorium for the mentally ill; he was in jail; he was in a Russian arctic slave labor camp. Last week's report ended the speculation: mourners bringing flowers to a grave in a Saratov cemetery noticed a new tombstone engraved with the name of Stalin...