Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profile of Richard Wright, by contrast, is an excellent and penetrating commentary. Baldwin traces his friendship with Wright from the start of his own first novel, then relates their quarrels and finally Baldwin's disillusionment with Wright in Paris. Negro intellectuals in France all felt that Wright had deserted the American Negro, and that he considered himself above the Africans. Baldwin himself was horrified at the realization that all this was some-how due to Wright's own American Negro heritage, which, after his rise to "acceptance", produced an irreparable breach between Africans and himself and an individual disdain...
...Zinacantecos often rent fields a days walk from their homes, in a tropical part of Chiapas called "hot country." For weeks at a time the men are gone from home, tending their fields. During the summer, I worked with them, in return for my shelter, but especially for their friendship...
...same time sacrificing their own cultural identity. There is a possibility that the Michelmore episode will cause Peace Corps members to become overly afraid that they will offend someone by simply being themselves. And any attempt to be otherwise will inevitably ring a false note with the people whose friendship the Peace Corps wants to gain...
...languid afternoon last week, only a few Muscovites were out on Red Square strolling or feeding the pigeons. Then the peace was shattered as a small crowd bustled into the square shouting "Peace and friendship" in foreign-accented Russian. They bore a poster identifying them as "American-European March San Francisco-Moscow" and pressed handbills onto startled bystanders. The peace marchers from the U.S. had hit town...
Capping it all was tea with Nina Petrovna Khrushchev at the Moscow House of Friendship. Russia's first lady remained friendly even when one of her guests asked her, over apples and chocolates, to "convey to your husband the deep concern we feel that within the past month the Soviet Union has tested 17 atom bombs...