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He's incredibly smart and telegenic--it's always fun to watch him spar on TV, even if I disagree with him--but he's shown himself to be a helpless captive of another era, a two-prong outlet in a world of three-prong plugs.
John Demos, an eminent historian of early America at Yale, wrote a fascinating book several years ago called The Unredeemed Captive , about a white woman in colonial New England who was abducted by Indians and lived much of her life among them.
The other three aircraft were flown to Dawson Field, near Amman, Jordan; the passengers were held captive, and the planes were destroyed.
(Students, of course, are in some sense a captive market, forced to buy the books their professors assign.
(2) an “Anglo” woman kept captive in the U.S. by one or more persons of Latin-American origin.