Word: essayist
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Ralph Ellison, a Negro, is skilled as a novelist to the degree that James Baldwin, also a Negro, is skilled as an essayist. That is to say, he is among the very best of all U.S. writers, whatever the shade of their skin. But Negro writers quite properly find inexhaustible subject matter in their own racial wounds...
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...Newman succeeds as a reviewer where he fails as essayist: you want to read what he is interested in, to read Hardy or Russell instead of Newman. But two volumes are a lot of appetizer and appetizer to an awful lot. They shouldn't be started unless you're also prepared to spend next year in science biographies...
...situation in Cuba remains static or becomes more intense, there will be widespread protest among Negroes in this country," essayist-novelist James Baldwin told an overflow audience of 700 at M.I.T. last night. "I can't tell what form it will take, but you will feel it all around...
...Fund attained its all-time high as David McCord '21 retires as executive director, after serving with the Fund since its founding in 1925. McCord is one of the country's best known alumni officials, and doubles as a poet and essayist...