Word: styx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe in the right to protest. People like myself, always protesting against injustice, wouldn't last ten seconds in Russia. Also, no single group in this country believes more strongly in God and the hereafter. The Negro doesn't want to catch hell on this side of the River Styx and on the other side too." A Negro lawyer put it this way: "It's bad enough to be black without being Red too." The Negro is still deeply religious, although American churches have been slow in fighting discrimination before the altar. Says Marie Johnson, wife of Fisk University...
...simple story of Alcestis offers nothing too difficult in the way of dramatic movement-indeed, there is little action for anyone, a chief reason the opera is not performed more often. Dying King Admetus is condemned by Apollo to the Styx unless someone can be found to die in his place. None of the citizenry volunteers, so wife Alcestis sacrifices herself. Admetus follows her to the underworld, and Apollo is so impressed by their devotion that he reprieves them both...
...BEYOND STYX...