Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once Sargent invited the editor of Paris' Communist daily L'Humanité to Catacombs 65. Two summers ago, he helped Novelist James Baldwin organize a miniature version of Washington's civil rights march. Currently, the American Church has its own theologian-in-residence-Sydney Ahlstrom of Yale Divinity School-who teaches a weekly course to 80 adults of the congregation. Sargent occasionally appears on French television and at ecumenical conferences involving French Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy. He chain-smokes his way through an 18-hour day filled with the normal routine of pastors everywhere-teaching, counseling...
...BALDWIN SMITH...
...decade, Photographer Richard Avedon's elegant, epicene high-fashion pictures have set the slick tone for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Now it turns out that all along Avedon has been disgusted by the affluent America he celebrates. To register his revulsion, he got together with James Baldwin (who was his old classmate in The Bronx's prestigious De Witt Clinton High School) to plan a work that would "expose the corruption in American life. I am fascinated by decadent faces." Baldwin's brief text is oddly irrelevant, obviously hasty, too often drawn...
According to James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones, Malcolm X and any number of other writers and seers, the U.S. Negro is consumed with hatred of whites and is on the verge of doing some foul and desperate deed. Negro Writer Ralph Ellison's coolly reasoned essays are a timely rebuttal of this extravagant thesis. In clean, brisk, unapocalyptic prose, Ellison denies that "unrelieved suffering is the only 'real' Negro experience, and that the true Negro writer must be ferocious. . . . What an easy con-game for ambitious, publicity-hungry Negroes this stance of 'militancy' has become...
Ellison, no less than Baldwin, indicts slavery and segregation for the lasting wounds that they have inflicted on the Negro. But he does not believe that the Negro's life in the U.S. has been a complete horror story. In spite of lynchings, beatings and everyday insults, the "harsh discipline of Negro life" has instilled in Negroes certain admirable qualities that are lacking in most whites: patience, humor, a "rugged sense of life." Ellison's own life in Oklahoma City, he reminisces, was happy and vital, even though it was segregated, even though his mother was thrown into...