Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
...didn't they exclude living political scientists and historians, too? In the academic world, where publishing a book is a condition of existence, professional jealousies, if anything, are more bitter than in the world of fiction and poetry. Besides, a collection of Americana which does not include Farrell or Baldwin or T.S. Eliot is not really representative...
...Russin's criticisms are well put. But he has committed at least two sins of omission. The first: James Baldwin has said that the Negro will have the white man. One reason is that we still believe in man. Therefore, we men, powerless as we are supposed to be, still believe that it is good, just and important to stand up for what we believe. Sometimes, just to stand, glad that we have freed ourselves so that we can stand, and march. For it is fundamentally a matter of our humanity. The March on Washington gives us a chance...
Bevan jeered at his party as a "Salvation Army which took to its heels on the day of judgment." What he felt for many of them, especially the office-hungry respectable bureaucrats of the trades unions, was nothing but a fine, aristocratic disdain. He raged not only against Baldwin and Chamberlain ("that dusty soul") but also against men who should have been his own comrades, like Trades Union Chief Sir Walter Citrine. He "suffers from files," Bevan said contemptuously...