Word: baldwinism
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...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
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NONFICTION 1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1) 2. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (2) 3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (5) 4. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (4) 5. Rascal, North (3) 6. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (6) 7. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (7) 8. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower 9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (8) 10. The Education of American Teachers, Conant...
...government in Britain was Lord Salisbury in 1895. Since then, in deference to the unwritten rule that the Prime Minister cannot sit in the "Other Place," as M.P.s call the House of Lords, party leaders twice have reluctantly passed over titled favorites for second-running commoners. In 1923 Stanley Baldwin wrested the job from Lord Curzon; in 1940 Winston Churchill edged out Lord Halifax. Today the old rule need no longer keep talented men out of the Commons, thanks to a bill passed last summer that enables any "reluctant peer" to renounce his titles for life if he wishes...
Best of all, though, was a song of modern social protest. At one point in his campaign to swing public opinion against the reluctant spinsters, the civic leader enlists the support of some collegiate picketers who are suffering from the "Age-of-Anxiety Blues." Distressed that "Jim Baldwin said kid you gotta take a stand, but Ole Miss has opened and the bomb has been banned," the Wellesley-Brandeis-Radcliffe collection of demonstrators complain that "Sartre said kid you gotta decide/but how can I determine the essence inside...