Word: baldwinism
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...expects of him. Sociologist Peter L. Berger develops this theme at length in The Noise of Solemn Assemblies, Doubleday, 1961. The whole raison d'etre of Protestant Christianity lies in obedience to an authoritative divine revelation. Doing the right thing (supporting civil rights) for the wrong reason (because James Baldwin says to) may be better than not doing it at all, but it does make the seminary degree and Protestant ordination rather superfluous. Harold O.J. Brown, '53, B.D. '57, Th.M.'59 Associate Member, United Min- istry to Students at Harvard and Radcliffe
Brown recounts that a Catholic priest at the meeting of the United Ministry objected because Baldwin had said "absolutely everything is in our hands." The priest felt that this eliminated the possibility of the existence...
...example of this deformation, Brown cites a meting of the United Harvard Ministry which was devoted to publishing an advertisement endorsing the civil rights movement. He criticizes the Ministry's use of a quotation from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, rather than a Biblical quotation as the cornerstone of the Ministry's argument...
...Amen Corner, by James Baldwin, has one negative virtue as compared with his Blues for Mr. Charlie, offered last season: it is not a strident, vulgar, melodramatic polemic on the race question. Those who love to see the tumbrels of social protest roll portentously across the stage will be sorely disappointed. The play also has one positive virtue: Baldwin's autobiographical acquaintance with the Negro evangelical scene. But Amen Corner, a 14-year-old first play, scuttles edgewise through this milieu like a crab, evading dramatic life more successfully than it confronts its characters. Baldwin has yet to learn...
...could expose his junior brood to Baldwin, to Norman Mailer, to Paul Goodman and Ayn Rand--not because the Institute should attempt to convert its residents into radicals and reactionaries, but because a good politician understands his community, not only the majority that elects him, but also the minorities on the fringes, where political creativity often has its roots...