Word: slaving
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...climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase. How is the increase in leisure time and the extension in life expectancy to be spent? Will it be for the achievement of man's better aspirations or his degradation to the level of a well-fed, well-kept slave of an all-powerful state? "Indeed, merely to state that question sharply reminds us that in these days and in the years ahead the need for philosophers and theologians parallels the need for scientists and engineers . . . In this country we emphasize both liberal and practical education. But too often...
...work at the house of Prince Abdullah Feisal. Long months went by and one day I learned that Mohammed Ali had returned to Africa. The prince ordered me to come before him and told me that I was no longer a free man but had been sold as a slave. Several years later, the prince ordered his overseer to sell me in the slave market of Jidda. I was taken there in a truck. I entered a large, obscure hall. There were many men and women gathered there-slaves like myself. I managed to escape . . . Several times I tried...
Ravel: Schéhérazade (Suzanne banco, soprano; Suisse-Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Three lovely songs with luxuriant orchestral accompaniment: Asie is an extended sigh for the exotic pleasures of the Orient; La Flute Enchantée is played with caressing delicacy by the beautiful slave-girl's lover; L'Indifférent subtly describes a handsome stranger who bypasses some unspecified hospitality...
...approached Father Leoni, told him he wanted to become a Catholic. After Leoni baptized him, the man turned out to be an informer. Jesuit Leoni was put on trial for carrying on religious propaganda and for other crimes-unspecified. Sentence: 25 years of forced labor at Vorkuta, the notorious slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle. Recalls Leoni: "At Vorkuta, it is winter twelve months of the year and summer the rest of the time. That I spent over seven years at Vorkuta without dying or going crazy was due to the fact that the Lord never let me lack...
Personality: "Bloody executioner, trusted slave" (Marshal Sokolovsky). "He is a babbling Belgrade parrot ... a bad actor. Imitating that hypocrite and poseur Churchill, Tito wanted to be a hunter, writer and chess player, but like Churchill he is a bad shot, a still worse writer, and at chess he is beaten even by the lowbrow Pijade . . . Greedy and insatiable as Goering." (Literary Gazette...