Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shot from 1970 on, another has framed prints of Galbraith, Eliot Richardson, even one picture signed "Rick God! I'm happy--Bette Middler." And in the Harvard Neighbors Office he has another kind of gallery, six photographs that make him feel very proud. There's a picture of James Baldwin that captures something very gentle in him, something that came through to Rick when he read Baldwin. "I've got a lifetime's worth of association with graphics and taking and making pictures," Rick says looking over his collection, "and I know enough to be a serious photographer. And there...
...arrival of Mason City's first massage parlor was not taken so calmly. The town fathers scared off the first owner with an avalanche of building-and safety-code restrictions. But Robert and Monica Baldwin opened Monica's Massage on the same site last month. Baldwin, an ex-boxer, hotly denies any sexual services at Monica's. Word around town is that he is almost correct: voyeurism is the main attraction, with a little masturbatory help here and there. Mayor Kew offers the familiar refrain: "Much to our dismay, there was nothing we could do; just make...
...question never really deserved an answer; when I saw that Baldwin was coming to Harvard, I decided on a field trip intead of a retreat. I considered my worst fears: we might find an effete writer regaling black undergraduates whom my students would think had edged out their own kids to get to Harvard. Worse, the Harvard audience might greet the men with raised eyebrows, even with a conjecture that Buildings and Grounds had turned out for the evening. But it was an opportunity, a risk the men would never take outside our class. I suggested a vote, everyone abiding...
Four hundred and fifty people had come to hear Baldwin, about eighty per cent of them black. The feeling was lively and warm, but my students at first sat quite stiffly. Soon a small, grinning figure was leaning over the podium talking to us. I glanced at my "guests" again and knew that a lot was now in Baldwin's hands...
...social peace--however "refined," however accepted--is hurting us more than we know: those at the top, for all their sophistication, become wedding-cake figures, deprived and innocent of the world around them; those in the middle barter themselves daily, hustling and striving and somehow always missing the point. Baldwin says that blacks still "free" of those maladies become not only victims of whites' hatred and fear, but, ironically, furtively, sources of the love they inhibit among themselves...