Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie Washington, the popular local folksinger who has charged two Boston policemen with brutality, probably will not attend Wednesday's hearing of the Police Review Board, which Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara called to consider the singer's complaint...
Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. A vast, masterful exploration of Civil War writing and what it meant...
...America." The best of America. We paused, and asked him what he thought it was. "There is a vigor of thought at the highest levels in this country," he began. "Intellectually, at your best, you're thriving, you're much more alive than England. Your writers--men like Trilling, Edmund Wilson, Kazin, Saul Bellow, Malamud--are terribly exciting. Even the non-professional people: look at how trenchant and vigorous a book a woman like Jane Jacobs can produce...
...after his conviction, the singer lodged a complaint with Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara and petitioned the newly created Boston Police Review Board to hold public hearing on the case. Washington's complaint charged that Officers Robert X. Harvey and John Dailey arrested him illegally, broke his nose, and dislocated his ankle...
Baldwin has already devoted a good deal of time to discussing about these things, and it now appears that his efforts may be damaging his own writings. Edmund Wilson, in the 30's, was affected by the tension between himself and his society to the point of suffering a nervous breakdown, as Baldwin had also done in the 1950's. But Wilson, while attempting to clarify things for himself, produced some excellent first-hand journalism as well as some first rate academic work on political and literary subjects. Re-reading these works now we sense a mind that was continuing...