Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD WRIGHT, by Constance Webb. Using previously unpublished material, Miss Webb, a close friend of the late Negro novelist, tracks Wright's career from poverty in Mississippi to fame and prestige in Paris...
...been through a presidential campaign before, has given the campaign whatever order it has. Money, strangely enough, is not a very big handicap now. McCarthy's biggest problem for the long run is building a professional staff-and keeping it from Kennedy. Goodwin, a close friend of Bobby's, admits that he is "torn" between the two candidates, and no one would be surprised to see him shift camps after the Wisconsin primary. "I notice," quipped McCarthy last week, "that Dick Goodwin has a very large suitcase. He might have a change of clothes for another climate...
Please pay close attention to "we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years." You were so sure you could do it that you did not even bother to insert "attempt to compensate." Moreover, fifteen years is a tremendous overstatement. It, too, reflects that inflated opinion of yourself...
...only bright spots on attack are the improving play of converted midfielder Charley Ames, and the aggressive work of sophomore John Ince. Ince, the best prospect at close defenseman on the team, only needs a little more varsity experience to set the Crimson rolling...
...they did everything in their power to bring this tension to the surface and express it without offending the white tutors. That tension which was felt and understood was not only viable then but as James Baldwin once uttered cryptically, "Every Negro American risks having the gates of paranoia close on him." It was indeed the paranoia which all blacks feel when they are around whites...