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NOTHING PERSONAL by Richard Avedon and James Baldwin. Atheneum...
...decade, Photographer Richard Avedon's elegant, epicene high-fashion pictures have set the slick tone for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Now it turns out that all along Avedon has been disgusted by the affluent America he celebrates. To register his revulsion, he got together with James Baldwin (who was his old classmate in The Bronx's prestigious De Witt Clinton High School) to plan a work that would "expose the corruption in American life. I am fascinated by decadent faces." Baldwin's brief text is oddly irrelevant, obviously hasty, too often drawn...
According to James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones, Malcolm X and any number of other writers and seers, the U.S. Negro is consumed with hatred of whites and is on the verge of doing some foul and desperate deed. Negro Writer Ralph Ellison's coolly reasoned essays are a timely rebuttal of this extravagant thesis. In clean, brisk, unapocalyptic prose, Ellison denies that "unrelieved suffering is the only 'real' Negro experience, and that the true Negro writer must be ferocious. . . . What an easy con-game for ambitious, publicity-hungry Negroes this stance of 'militancy' has become...
British and American elections have not fallen in the same year since 1924. Then, most voters in both countries supported what they considered the safest party; Calvin Coolidge was returned to the White House and Stanley Baldwin to 10 Downing Street. Today, in a time of general prosperity and after the shock of the assassination of an American President, the candidates who appear safest will again probably win. And while there is no mystery about the identity of the safe candidate in this country, it is difficult to say just who he is in the United Kingdom, before the election...
...American Art Students League. Johnson headquarters are in a handsome, red-carpeted apartment on the Place Vendóme, where Chairman Davidson has received more inquiries about who gets the apartment after the campaign is over than anything else. The Johnson committee in Paris includes Novelists James Baldwin, Mary McCarthy and James Jones, as well as lawyers, journalists, businessmen and the wives of OECD and UNESCO officials...