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...empire which has ever existed in all history,''*2) "the only imperial system which is not liquidating itself but is still trying energetically to expand in all directions," 3) "one of the most cruel and oppressive ever devised." Warned Stevenson: "Because the world cannot long remain half slave and half free, the United States expects that the United Nations will focus its attention as carefully on the 'colonialism' of the Soviet Union as it does on that of Portugal or any other nation. For if the Soviet Union comes to believe it can enforce a double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: World's Biggest Empire | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...psychological factors"). Amantha, the beautiful ante-bellum heroine, is setting divinity students aquiver at Oberlin College when she hears that her plantation owner father has died. Back in Kentucky, to her horror and the reader's titillation, she learns not only that she is the daughter of a slave woman, but that the plantation and she herself with it are being sold for taxes. Soon Amantha (Yvonne De Carlo in the movie) is trembling on the block at a slave auction. A lounging lecher decides to examine the goods, when whack!-a silver-headed cane smashes his wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Author in a Box | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...complete re-examination of its relation to the U.N. This appraisal must be based on recognition of involvement in a "cold war with mortal stakes." That is, we must follow the course profitable to our own national interests, and not become, like the Secretary-General, a "political slave of the Afro-Asian bloc...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Rusher Says US Power In UN Declining | 10/28/1961 | See Source »

...particularly the way his troubles in finding a wife snowball like a humorous, extravagant folktale. He hires out for a wife, works seven years only to get the wrong girl, and has to start all over again. And with each new wife he receives, there is a slave girl who also becomes involved in Jacob's rather generous instinct for fatherhood. You see what I mean...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Mosaic | 10/17/1961 | See Source »

...required to read so many pages of his awful shoutings: "They're [presumably the untroubled middle classes] all hypocrites and frauds. They spend their money so they can buy television sets and washing machines, but the one thing they can't buy is human dignity, because a slave can't have dignity...." (The rest of it isn't a bit better...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Mr. Colin Wilson Among the Bores Of Bohemia | 10/14/1961 | See Source »

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