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...Every Negro poet has 'something to say,' " wrote Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950, hanging out a precarious shingle for all her Negro colleagues. "Simply because he is a Negro, he cannot escape having some important things to say." This same claim is invoked in the foreword to this collection of 37 new Negro poets, but what the book proves is happily quite the opposite: it is because they are poets, not Negroes, that they have something...
...Brecht's foreword urges the viewer to "watch now the inexplicable wrestling match between two men . . . Don't worry about the reasons for this fight but make yourself share in the human stakes." The advice is well-taken, because the reasons for the struggle seem decidedly artificial from the start. Shlink a Chinese timber dealer, purposely provokes a fatal quarrel with George Garga, an employee in a moth-eaten lending library. When Garga refuses to sell his opinion of a book to Shlink and his three thugs, the Chinaman concludes that he is a man of spirit an man worthy...
Kennedy in Germany, narrated by ABC Announcer Howard K. Smith. Kennedy's own Profiles in Courage, reissued by Harper & Row with a special foreword by Kennedy's brother Bobby (TIME, Feb. 21), is back on most bestseller lists. Harper is also betting on the success of the Kennedy memoir to be written by Theodore C. Sorensen, the late President's speechwriter and adviser...
...written, when he was a Senator; after he was elected President; and after his assassination. Now a memorial edition seems likely to keep the book in the No. 1 spot for quite a while, and not least of all because of a brother's-eye-view foreword by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Excerpts...
...Lowenstein his more regular jobs only sustain him between his projects for human rights. In 1958 and 1959, he recruited and led a force of trouble-shooters on a trip to South West Africa to record and report the facts of racial oppression for the United Nations. In the foreword to Lowenstein's book on the expedition, Brutal Mandate, Eleanor Roosevelt called him "a person of unusual ability and complete integrity....he will always fight crusades because injustice fills him with a sense of rebellion...