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Today's Papers has taken a liking to "PHL Gem Dandy," the Chilean female with the cute inky-black face, described as "suitable for use as a companion" and "very docile/willing."
In the colleges, where the teen-age students were bigger and less docile, violence was even worse.
Three years later, Stanley Elkins published the equally monumental Slavery . Though a liberal like Stampp, Elkins accepted the notion of the docile, contented Sambo--though hardly as evidence of slavery's mildness.
People do play against type from time to time, but the charge that Reno has suddenly become a docile tool of the White House simply doesn't wash.
It makes one nostalgic for the fear of LSD in the water, fluoride in the water, and saltpeter in the cafeteria food, presumably to create a docile population of human slaves with excellent teeth who keep hallucinating that they're uninterested in sex.