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...thirds majority with only eight votes to spare. Some Senators grumbled that the U.S. should not have allowed Russia, an Ivan-come-lately with no valid claim in Antarctica, to be a partner in the treaty. "It amounts to putting the free world and the slave world on the same footing," complained Connecticut's Thomas Dodd. Thundered Georgia's Richard Russell, recalling the exploits of the late Explorer Byrd (brother of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd): "This treaty would certainly be a dismal conclusion to one of the brightest and proudest chapters of American history...
...Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, the times were perilously similar to those 100 years ago when the Republican Party met in Chicago and nominated a man who said the nation could not exist half slave and half free. In 1960, said Keynoter Judd to this week's Republican Convention, the gravest issue is once again human slavery-"this time not men enslaved by other men but, far more complex and dangerous, masses of men enslaved by governments." And since Americans know "deep down in our hearts" that the whole world cannot long endure half slave and half...
...translator has tried to make Plautus talk like a contemporary American." The flaw in this reasoning is that while there were many points of similarity between the Greek and Roman civilizations, few of these points are mirrored in our time. In particular, since we do not live in a slave society, one of the main characters, a slave taking advantage of his masters absence, is undercut by the colloquiality. But more important than this is that it is jarring to hear a tunic clad actor say, "P.U., you stink...
...nightmare must come a national cabinet, a prime minister and a chief of state in time for independence day on June 30; but bloody tribal fighting has raged for months through the Congo. Bitterest of all was in the land of the Lulua. Since the 19th century, when Arab slave raiders drove the frightened Baluba westward into Lulua territory, the Baluba had happily tilled Lulua soil in semi-serfdom in exchange for the right to remain in the area. Then last year, when whispers of Congolese independence filtered out from Leopoldville, the Baluba began declaring themselves free men, tried...
...Eddie Hodges), the son of a town drunk in northeastern Missouri, gets awful sick of the "dismal, regular and decent" widow who has taken him in and is trying to "sivilize" him. So one day he cunningly fakes his own murder and goes poling merrily downriver with a runaway slave named Jim (tolerably well played by Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore). But while the story goes down the river, the picture heads up the creek. The director and scriptwriter seemed determined to reduce Mark Twain's Huckleberry as rapidly as possible to the sort of fruity mush the customers...