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...last in his element, free to roam the country and make countless broadcasts. "America we shall iron out, England we shall destroy," he cried. He urged Indonesians to enlist in defense forces recruited and armed by the Japanese; he helped supply his Japanese masters with romushas, or slave laborers, most of whom were never heard of again...
Negro singers are still rare enough in grand opera to be news to the public and to make managers self-conscious about what roles to give them. Two possible answers: Carmen, the gypsy girl, and Aïda, the Ethiopian slave. But they are also taxing debut parts, both vocally and dramatically. Last week, on opera stages 4.000 miles apart, two of the most promising of the U.S.'s young Negro singers appeared in Carmen and Aïda to audience cheers...
Economic Citizenship. The vision at the heart of The Capitalist Manifesto is that automation will make the machine the superslave of man. Just as in the Greek state the slave-owning few were freed from toil to pursue the duties of citizenship and the work of civilization, so all men could be similarly freed (argue K. & A.) in a future society where machines are slaves. In such a society, men could shun the "subsistence work" and "drudgery" involved in the production of "goods of the body" and-apart from the necessary tasks of management-turn to the arts and sciences...
...hardbitten, respected, slave-driving bastard," B.G. MacNabb, so excited over the recently successful test firing of "Big Annie"? His sophomoric screams of delight remind me of the reaction of an inadequate coach when his outclassed team scores a surprise touchdown...
...bishops [Dec. 23]. The 620,000 Anglicans in West Africa have eight natives in the episcopate, and the million Anglicans in Central and East Africa have six more. The policy of advancing native Africans to the episcopate is not a recent Anglican practice; the first such was a rescued slave, Samuel Adjai Crowther, who was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral in 1864. He served as bishop on the Niger for 27 years...