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Massport official Richard Baldwin blamed an increase in planes over Cambridge during this winter's cold snap to prevailing northwest winds. "This summer shouldn't be as bad as that period," Baldwin added...
...only home he knows. This attempt to reconcile this seemingly violent contradiction of what it means to be negroid and to be American becomes the painful burden of the cutting essays of James Baldwin; a master of form, if ever there was one in America. In this peculiar adaptation of form, Baldwin uses his peculiar gift of language, comingling the art of rapping with the terror and brimstone of the Afro-American sermon which possesses its own peculiar cadences, to orchestrate in an intensely personal manner the intense emotional experiences of Afro-Americans. For Baldwin, of course, this violent synthesis...
...foundation's major enterprises is a marine research center which is trying to preserve the endangered humpbacks, of which there are perhaps only 850 left. (By dialing 667-9316 you can hear them "singing.") The foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came here to do good and did right well." Near by, Baldwin ghosts may note with horror, aging flower children -"bamboo tourists"-dicker for Maui Wowie. Thanks to the tourist boom, Lahaina today has three times as many permanent inhabitants...
There are also certain peculiarities of form which can be ascribed to the specificity of Afro-American culture and which seem to bring out further the richness of Afro-American literature and thereby its enrichment of American literature. I refer to the brilliant essay writing of James Baldwin which seems to have emanated out of the ser-monesque-rapping of the Afro-American religious experience; the peculiar from of the dialect which Dunbar introduced into his works; and the particular integration of the folkloric tradition which Chestnutt used so well in his "Conjure" tales. One finds a very special...
...these passages, unfortunately, the polemical quality comes through more clearly than the analysis. Her treatments of such diverse authors as Norman Mailer, Eldridge Cleaver, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and James Baldwin make sense from the point of view of her thesis, but are not always clear in their own right. Her discussions of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's and Eugene Genovese's portrayals of black sociology are vivid but sometimes confusingly located in the text, and her autobiographical comments, while giving life to the argument, do not always flow happily into the generalizations she attempts to make...