Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considered the descendant of the sun and is still patron of all agriculture-the Emperor himself. In a traditional announcement, the Palace reported that Hirohito, 68, and his chamberlains had harvested "a good crop" from the 350-square-yard paddy. Part of the sacred grain will be distilled into black and white sake and offered to imperial ancestors in the Palace's inner sanctuary...
Whatever the opera's qualities, there could hardly be a better incarnation of Satan than Basso Norman Treigle, 42. Small, skinny, seemingly naked, Treigle flashed through the role like a black-voiced cobra. Plunging from profundo depths to baritonal heights, his voice remained huge and perfectly focused through one of the crudest bass roles ever written. "I can't say I really like this Mefisto," Treigle said afterward. "I think of myself as an actor, not a singer, and it isn't an interesting role. I just keep dashing out and gutting...
...came to hate and fear white people. He looked at their art as into a mirror, and could not see himself there at all. In the "disastrously explicit medium of language" that he uses so well, Baldwin adds a yet icier thought: "This did not mean that I loved black people; on the contrary, I despised them, possibly because they failed to produce Rembrandt...
Baldwin to the contrary, great painters throughout the history of Western art have looked at the black man and mirrored him as beautiful. Not many, but some. Seeking them out, Author-Critic Alexander Eliot culled the great collections of Europe and the U.S. to assemble the remarkable gallery that TIME presents on the following pages. All of the pictures are white mirrors, since oil paint was never the Negro's traditional medium: the promise of black Rembrandts lay in other fields. But all of them reflect the unprejudiced eye that saw beauty could appear in any color...
...course of his search, Eliot immersed himself in the relatively un known field of black letters. There he found poems by men whose names are scarcely known - all black men whose verse cast a new light on the unrealized beauty of blackness. Lit by these neglected lamps, the black man's mirrored image takes on a new dimension - a dimension that both enhances the particularity of "negritude" and celebrates a human communality of relevance...