Word: ellison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only last evening one of the Negro critics of the course, having earlier informed me that he was not among that segment of the course's critics who simply reject a white scholar teaching "black history," unwittingly contradicted himself. This occurred during a panel discussion between the novelist Ralph Ellison and Alvin Poussaint, a Negro phychiatrist, at Brandeis University. Dr. Poussaint argued the ridiculious line I attacked in my letter in Tuesday's Crimson, namely, that no white scholar could or should teach a so-called black curriculum, and the Social Sciences 5 critic with me at the panel turned...
...evolution is so intertwined with Negro history and so expressive of Negro culture, Negroes naturally tend to value it as a sort of badge of black identity. "The abiding moods expressed in our most vital popular art form are not simply a matter of entertainment," says Negro Novelist Ralph Ellison. "They also tell us who and where...
...Frank and Nancy-have for reasons of their own renounced the Kennedys for Humphrey, the Vice President's supporting cast is far shorter and markedly less sexy. H.H.H.'s leading B.P.: Tallulah Bankhead, Roberta Peters, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Dempsey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Isaac Stern, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison and James T. Farrell. Couturiere Mollie Parnis is on the list -though of course Muriel makes almost all of her own clothes...
...Sanh also most likely claimed the life of the 12th journalist to die in Viet Nam: Photographer Bob Ellison, 23, whose work has appeared in many U.S. publications, including TIME'S cover on the Negro G.I. Ellison was listed as one of the 49 men aboard a C-123 transport shot down by ground fire as it circled for a landing...
...Podhoretz writes entertainingly and knowledgeably. He sees that society as characterized by its resemblance to a modern, Americanized Jewish family. Though he is quick to note the names of such important gentile members as Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, James Baldwin, and such "kissing cousins" as Robert Lowell and Ralph Ellison, Podhoretz insists that "the term 'Jewish' can be allowed to stand by clear majority rule and by various peculiarities of temper." The term family, he says, derives from "the fact that these were people who by virtue of their tastes, ideas and general concerns found themselves stuck with...