Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example of this deformation, Brown cites a meting of the United Harvard Ministry which was devoted to publishing an advertisement endorsing the civil rights movement. He criticizes the Ministry's use of a quotation from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, rather than a Biblical quotation as the cornerstone of the Ministry's argument...
...Amen Corner, by James Baldwin, has one negative virtue as compared with his Blues for Mr. Charlie, offered last season: it is not a strident, vulgar, melodramatic polemic on the race question. Those who love to see the tumbrels of social protest roll portentously across the stage will be sorely disappointed. The play also has one positive virtue: Baldwin's autobiographical acquaintance with the Negro evangelical scene. But Amen Corner, a 14-year-old first play, scuttles edgewise through this milieu like a crab, evading dramatic life more successfully than it confronts its characters. Baldwin has yet to learn...
...could expose his junior brood to Baldwin, to Norman Mailer, to Paul Goodman and Ayn Rand--not because the Institute should attempt to convert its residents into radicals and reactionaries, but because a good politician understands his community, not only the majority that elects him, but also the minorities on the fringes, where political creativity often has its roots...
...time of the Birmingham bombings in 1963, Robert Kennedy went to New York and met with James Baldwin and a group of Negro intellectuals. Both groups came away disturbed. Kennedy had cited statistics about schools being desegregated in the South, about increased registration of Negro voters, about voluntary desegregation of hotels and restaurants, and could not understand why the Negroes didn't care, why they were dissatisfied...
Misread Mood. At the crisis point of Windsor's life 30 years ago, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin harshly gave the King the choice of abdicating and marrying Wallis or giving her up and remaining King. Winston Churchill took up the King's cause in the Commons, insisting that the government accept a morganatic marriage.* But Churchill misread the mood of the Establishment. His efforts were hotly resented in Parliament, and the Times thundered that the woman the King wanted to marry was not fit to be Queen...