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...That spirit and that conviction did not survive the Depression, when, says Garnett, suicide became the rage in Bloomsbury. The writer Dorothy Edwards stepped in front of a train; the poetess Cynthia Mengs, who had been "trying to break her neck for years," managed it in a steeplechase; Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey's longtime housekeeper and companion, shot herself and died with "a proud expression on her face." What were they suffering from? An illusion. Author Garnett now thinks, "as beautiful and as foolish as that which underlies Christianity: the belief that men naturally love one another...
Incoming President Vaughan Carrington Mason, 46, of Manhattan, criticized the King-Anderson bill, too. But, separating himself a little from all the harmony, he took after one of the A.M.A.'s favorite laws, the Kerr-Mills Act, which routes federal money to the states to set up medical-care plans for the near-indigent aged. So long as "states that do not even believe in the dignity of some of their citizens . . . deprive Negro citizens of their rights, what faith can I have that they will treat the sick, needy aged Negroes any better...
...first Forum will be on racial problems--"Emancipation Proclamation 1961"--with Arthur E. sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law at the University; V. O. Key, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government; Walter Carrington, of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; and Whitney Young, National Director of the Urban League. It will be in Loeb Experimental Theatre Wednesday...
...rest of the audience--both Negro and white--were also quiet during Malcolm X's speech. They applauded with increasing enthusiasm as his opponent, Walter Carrington, defended the NAACP position with statements like "Negro racist groups first predicted that Armageddon would come in 1941. Then they gave the world 70 years of grace, which brought the date to 1984 (applause). I don't know whether they influenced George Orwell or George Orwell influenced them." (more applanse) The Muslims in the audience remained completely silent...
...moods varied from minute to minute. Every few minutes he would chat with Carrington or smile at the moderator, or the audience. But when he was asked, as a last question, what the eventual outcome of the racial conflict would be, he replied...