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...than ninety in the 1790s alone. Slavery was taken on by the first generation of self-consciously American poets, among them Joel Barlow, David Humphreys, Timothy Dwight, and Philip Freneau, all of whom saw it as anathema to America's future. In 1778 Barlow predicted that with American independence, "Afric's unhappy children, now no more / Shall feel the cruel chains they felt before." A few years later Freneau felt haunted by the continuing presence of slaves: "Half hell is in their song / And from the silent thought? - 'You have done us wrong...
...issue against the financial benefits of their stock holdings. Stanford, for example, estimates that brokerage fees alone for the sale of its $125 million worth of stock in 59 of the companies in question would amount to well over $ 1 million. In addition, firms with assets in South Afric'a have contributed $19.6 million to the university, and Stanford fears alienating them. The student response: "Stanford is subjecting itself to corporate blackmail...
...Prayer. No sooner has Edgar Bergen traded wisecracks with his lively pieces of lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, than Katharine Cornell engages in a bit of Romeo and Juliet with a soldier who remembers his Shakespeare. Ethel Waters has scarcely finished syncopating with Count Basic's Afric jazz band when Yehudi Menuhin steps forward to render Schubert's Ave Maria on his expensive violin...
...Onward Afric warriors marching...
Mistake No. 3: When Ethiopia's wily Emperor ran true to immemorial form, balking Italian concessionaires and bilking II Duce with the too-shrewd tricks of an Afric people's despot, Dictator Mussolini made the cardinal mistake of not educating world public opinion by a campaign of publicity such as Germany has waged for years, yowling from every vantage point how she has been wronged...