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...committee itself hardly made any of the decision it passed down, it mostly just amended, discussed and gave the Harvard seal of approval and authority to problems and solutions which interested Dr. Henry Beecher, chairman of the committee and Professor of Research in Anesthesia at Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital...
...glad that the ten black writers who responded to William Styron's Nat Turner [July 12] weren't around when Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. If this novel had been repressed because of stock characters and a failure to understand the Negro character, I don't know what would have happened to the abolition movement...
...submit that the "important question" is not, as you would have it, "What is Styron's own attitude on racial questions?" Unless we are prepared to return to the Harriet Beecher Stowe school of social axe grinding, we had best leave off speculating on authorial politics and simply judge novels as good...
...knock a god, though we tried. We knew the people trusted us as much as they trusted any white man. We took part in their activities. One night we went to a fair in School 64--the Harriet Beecher Stowe School. Sunday morning, we went to one of the local Baptist churches. The neighbors would occasionally cook something for us--fried fish, perhaps, or a cake. The smaller kids adopted us and conducted guerrilla forays in the name of McCarthy. But they were our only converts...
Planet of the Apes "The monkey," said Henry Ward Beecher, "is an organized sarcasm upon the human race." The sarcasm is seldom allowed to speak for itself in this film about a space odyssey that goes awry and crash-lands three astronauts on an unknown planet. They have been traveling for a cool millennium or so, but their craft has been zooming along at close to the speed of light, and so-in accordance with Einstein's Time-Dilation Theory-they have scarcely aged, save for some grey in their beards. At first, all they find is sand...