Word: baldwinism
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...general run of newspapermen ("Only the game of politics contains more men who are afflicted with venality, envy and gutlessness"). In the course of a year's column writing, he also managed to drub Hubert Humphrey, Elizabeth Taylor, John F. Kennedy, Dean Rusk, Pearl Bailey, James Baldwin, Bishop James Pike, balletomanes, Abraham Lincoln, Sukarno and Frank Sinatra, to name...
...encounter some convinced atheists, more often the doubter is like the University of Houston graduate student who told a Baptist chaplain that she "had hated God since she was six" because a minister told her that "God had taken" her father when he died. Now, says the Rev. DeWitt Baldwin of the University of Michigan, "the students say simply, 'I just don't know what to believe.' They're seeking meaning, but don't feel that the church is giving good definitions...
...Jones put an extra racial twist on the death of two white civil rights workers murdered last summer in Mississippi. "Those boys were just artifacts−artifacts, man. They weren't real. I won't mourn them. I have my own dead to mourn for. " Novelist James Baldwin writes that "to be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time," and chose for a book title The Fire Next Time. Thus the outward message from the opinion-forming Negro intellectual is intransigence, fury, violence, even though...
Midnight in Jerusalem. Playwright James Baldwin, Negro Actress (Raisin in the Sun) Claudia McNeil, and the rest of the cast of Baldwin's touring Amen Corner arrived at Israel's new National Museum for a special post-performance visit. The others dutifully viewed the artifacts and prepared to leave, but Claudia had discovered the antique jewelry and stood mooning over the ancient necklaces, rings and Yemenite bridal costumes. "Leave me alone," she murmured as they tried to pry her away. "I'm staying here all night." Museum Director Teddy Kollek finally brought her out of the trance...
...changes are not made. I daresay that 85% of the Negro population, if not 95%, does not adhere to nonviolence or does not believe in it." Negro Author Louis Lomax: "The Negro masses are angry and restless, tired of prolonged legal battles that end in paper decrees." Author James Baldwin: "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time...