Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, who has himself turned to fiction in his recent work on civil rights law, recalls the discussion between Gates and Huggins: "Basically, they said that the great thrust of Afro-American history was to correct the record--to show that Black folk played a very important role," Bell says. "But the historical role tended to be a correction of the record, while the literary people can provide a continuous range of views about the record...
Sollors adds that up through the Civil Rights movement "so many energies were tied up in simply fighting segregation" that scholars didn't really have the chance to explore the complexities of the Afro-American literary tradition. "But now that the dust from that has settled a little bit, the texts are being recuperated in a new way," he says. "That's not to say there isn't a political agenda still, but rather that different questions can now be asked...
...Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). The first half of a two-volume biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...
...mystery is not really worth writing"). Yet what he knew most of all, as one of Hollywood's great theoreticians, was that a writer cannot afford to be too removed from the streets, and that what the public needs is a shot of romantic realism. T.S. Eliot was a civil man, and a public-minded writer, and so it is only right that his anniversary be marked in public ceremonies; Chandler was the laureate of the loner, and so his admirers recall him now in quieter ways, alone, unnoticed, with a light on in their darker corners...
Earlier this year, in response to a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and a number of private citizens, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals halted a seven-year custom in downtown Pittsburgh. The seasonal Nativity scene, erected by the Holy Name Society of the Pittsburgh diocese, was barred from the Allegheny County courthouse, where it had adorned the grand staircase of the building's rotunda. Also banned was an 18-ft. menorah displayed a block away at the front of the City-County building and sponsored by Chabad, the national organization of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews. "The city...