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July 26: Ralph Ellison, author of the Invisible Man, who will read from a novel now in progress...
Worst Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: to Harlan Ellison, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene for dunking Richard Sale's crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...
...Ralph Ellison began this task, if sketchily, in his conversations with Robert Penn Warren, reported in the latter's Who Speaks for the Negro? People with Zigmond's knowledge could carry on such an analysis; it is disappointing when they waste their efforts...
Lowell's dismay at our country's recent actions in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic." From the 400 guests, Macdonald got only seven signatures.* The others were either embarrassed or outraged. "Adolescent," snapped Author Ralph Ellison. Fumed Painter Peter Hurd: "It's just plain uncivilized." Macdonald was unintimidated. "I came here," he said, "to make trouble politically. I'm the bad fairy come to the christening...
SHADOW AND ACT, by Ralph Ellison. The author of The Invisible Man turns his attention to the situation of the Negro in America, but is wise enough to reject easy solutions or histrionic demands...