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...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
...Richmond the Rev. Martin Luther King, echoing a suggestion by Negro Author James Baldwin, called for a nationwide boycott of Christmas-gift buying as a symbolic gesture to the six Negro children who were killed recently in Birmingham (TIME, Sept. 27). One adverse response came from Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. Said Wilkins: "I find it difficult to go against Santa Claus. I feel a good many other Americans would find it difficult also...
...behind the sad facades of the store-front churches of evangelical sects in the Negro ghettos of great cities in the eastern U.S. is almost unknown to literature for the simple reason that both priests and parishioners are not literary people; often, indeed, they are barely literate. James Baldwin was a notable exception. But William Goyen, a white, 42-year-old Texan who never tried to save anybody, gives a far more readable and enjoyable account of Negro evangelists than Baldwin...
Insider or Out. Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, by now a celebrated item in the canon of that highly praised writer, stuns the reader's mind with the intensity of its autobiographical anguish, evokes all the prophetic frenzies of the author's Harlem childhood and violently scorns-at the same time that it demands respect for-his abandoned pulpit. Baldwin is the insider looking out. Many people, and this includes all who read for enjoyment, will prefer Goyen-the outsider looking in. When he looks in at the theological thimbleriggers of the clapboard cathedrals...
...FIRE NEXT TIME, Baldwin...