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James Baldwin, the novelist and essayist, will deliver a lecture on "The Cultural Implications of the Negro Revolt" in Sanders Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 18, it was announced yesterday...
Best at Conversation. Pain seemed foreign to Jean Cocteau because it was in such bad taste. In the sweep of French life and letters, he was the incomparably protean, mercurial, acrobatic, magical virtuoso-"a one-man band," as he called himself. He was the eternal dilettante-novelist, poet, farceur, essayist, film maker, actor, painter, sculptor, choreographer, composer, actor-and above all, talker. "Nothing he has written," said one of his friendly critics, "is worth half an hour of his conversation." He despised the limitations of professionalism. "The only way to make a good film is to know nothing about film...
...Group is a funny book, often brilliantly so. But it remains a major disappointment. Maybe too much was expected. Maybe it was unreasonable to expect a writer who is primarily an essayist to finally give us the novel that would capture the New York of the '30's. We have social history, we have political and economic history. If anything, the New Deal suffers from a glut of scholarship...
Ginzburg marshaled 65 psychologists, sexologists and assorted literati to testify. Lillian Maxine Serett, who wrote The Housewife's Handbook under the pen name Key Anthony, told the court, "Women's role in sex is widely misunderstood. Women do have sexual rights." Essayist Dwight Macdonald testified that he found inoffensive a "photographic tone poem" in Eros showing a nude Negro man and a nude white woman in eight pages of assorted full-color embraces. But when it came to Liaison and The Housewife's Handbook, even Macdonald drew the line. They were, he said, "vulgar...
...Waldorf-Astoria, Lena says she will give up nightclub singing altogether. "It's stifling to keep singing these silly boy-girl songs all your life. All the drama has moved from Broadway to Mississippi. Why be trivial in times like these?" Her idea: "Match bitternesses" with Essayist James Baldwin in a musical play...