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...unduly superstitious, particularly since Doyle, 35, has been thriving in Joyce's shadow. His first three novels earned impressive reviews and sales, and two of them -- The Commitments and The Snapper (see CINEMA) -- have received successful screen adaptations. And in October, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker Prize, Britain's most highly trumpeted literary award. Thanks to the publicity attendant upon the Booker, U.S. readers get the chance to buy Doyle's fourth novel now instead of next April, when it was originally scheduled to cross the Atlantic...
Lewis, who holds the Martin Luther King Jr. chair in history at Rutgers University, puts ideas on an equal footing with his cast of characters. They include Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute and Du Bois' principal rival for the souls of black folk. "The Great Accommodator," as Washington was known, stressed vocational training as the road to progress. Aim higher, was Du Bois' response, especially meant for the ears of those he called "the talented tenth," men and women like himself...
...eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity." Lewis, who holds the Martin Luther King Jr. chair in history at Rutgers, puts ideas on an equal footing with his cast of characters. They include Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute and Du Bois' principal rival for the souls of black folk. "The Great Accommodator," as Washington was known, stressed vocational training as the road to progress. Aim higher, was Du Bois' response, especially meant for the ears of those he called "the talented tenth...
...ever worked," says an ex- staffer. Letterman rejects reams of material submitted by his team of a dozen writers, and he crosses off potential guests by the score. "We'd hand in a list of 50 guests, and he'd say no to 48," says a frustrated former booker. He is also notoriously moody and has last-minute pangs of self-doubt. "In the makeup room five minutes before the show," says head writer Rob Burnett, "Dave will suddenly say, 'This bit is not going to work.' Sometimes he needs to be almost pushed in front of the camera." After...
...West's budding fame presents him with new challenges. The biggest is to avoid being swept up in a destructive swirl of publicity as many earlier black intellectuals and leaders have been. Starting with Booker T. Washington, America has seemed to have room for only one top black spokesman at a time, consigning each former favorite to the ash heap of inauthenticity as soon as a new H.N.I.C. (Head Negro in Charge) appeared...