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...James Baldwin and William Kelley, representatives of four generations of 20th-century black literature, have given the problems and possibilities in the interpersonal relationships of black people. A fine example of scholarship which "is not scholarship for the sake of scholarship," Miss George's analysis points to Toomer, whose Cane was "written in a time more hopeful than our own," as providing the literary model of "the union of feminine fertility and masculine virility," in an atmosphere of vitality and mutual respect. The piece suffers only from an inherent defect in the short-survey form, that it attempts to cover...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Journals The Harvard Journal of Afro-American Affairs | 5/13/1971 | See Source »

...plane this morning saying you can't score if you don't have the puck in their zone. Well, golly, I thought it over and he was right. So I got on the phone to Reay. With six forwards out there we'll be the only ones who cane score, hee, hee," Johnston churtled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Bye Bye to Bobby Orr | 4/1/1971 | See Source »

...nearing 10 o'clock. The room had been a pressure cooker for over two hours by now. Teller was tiring; his face was whitening and there were puckers under his eyes. He had been brandishing his cane and stomping his feet all along-but now his pant leg was lifted, revealing the brace on his right leg. He leaned often on the cane new, as though the frail hotel chair wasn't going to survive under his enormous frame. The Old-World courtesies droned...

Author: By Deborah Shapley, | Title: The Scientist as Doctor Strangelove | 2/19/1971 | See Source »

Fidel Castro last week summoned provincial representatives from all parts of Cuba to an economic accounting in Havana. The jefe máximo had bad news for them. Unless the pace of the 1971 zafra, or sugar harvest, is stepped up, he warned, considerable amounts of cane will go unprocessed. Said Fidel: "We cannot allow ourselves the luxury of leaving one pound of sugar unexported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Mortgaged Island | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Princeton has a few problems in addition to its lack of talent. One Princeton star spent last year cutting sugar cane with the Venceremos brigade in Cuba, and he isn't getting along too well with the other players or coach Bill Quackenbush...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Skaters Face Weak-Kneed Tigers | 2/3/1971 | See Source »

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