Word: baldwinism
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...Boylston Oratory Competition (April 20, page 1) You can a picture of Jeffrey Rossman, and an announcement that he "beat our six competitors" to win first prize. However, there were two prizes awarded in the competition on Friday night. Pamela Thomas '85 presented a passage from James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," for which she received the distinction of second place. The judges took 40 minutes to reach their decision, and announced that each of the contestants had an advocate in the deliberations. Nicole Galland, who presented LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk from Omelas"; Joseph Krailik, who chose Eliot...
...EVEN the more militant Cleaver has abandoned many of his former tenets, what has become of Baldwin? Simply nothing. In contrast to his contemporary, Baldwin has not budged from his basic convictions. In last April's issue of Essence, he wrote: "The multitudinous bulk of [whites] sit, stunned, before their TV sets swallowing garbage that they know to be tormented by the suspicion that all men are brothers...
...Baldwin was able to take the strain of being a Black writer in a white world precisely because he was not a tiger. He never expected a revolutoin. He knew that no amount of marching in the street or breaking storefront windows was going to complete the process of equal rights. He did not flee America out if some fawning, unconscious love for white European, as Cleaver claimed, but rather because he knew change was not going to come quickly and he didn't want to be destroyed by the disappointment that inevitably followed the hope of the sixties...
...result, Baldwin was not dismayed by his sense of isolation to the extent that Cleaver was- a dismay which has led to the latter's capitalization. Though he is thousands of miles away, Baldwin still remains in touch with the concerns of Blacks in this country: he has written a book about the Atlanta child murders, tentatively titled Evidence Of Things Not Seen, ready for publication before the end of this year. Surely, even the Cleaver of 1968 would have to be impressed with Baldwin's two decades of loyalty to the cause of Black civil rights...
...this commitment something that Baldwin tosses off to make a living Baldwin's work bespeaks a conviction that goes beyond even Cleaver's words, as brilliant is those are. Indeed, Cleaver's writings now seem invalid, not because the sentiments expressed in Soul On Ice have become irrelevant, but because the author has not lived up to his work. Today's Black leaders especially Jesse Jackson can learn a lot from Baldwin's constant level-heads devotion to the Black interest. the Pussycat that roared...