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Words also tend to be devalued by the new erotica. Three centuries or so ago, William Shakespeare or John Donne could convey passion, poetry, disgust and concupiscence in words with artful undermeanings that shocked none. Nowadays, a few greatly gifted writers can effectively employ the familiar quad-riliterals for dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Sex as a Spectator Sport | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a moving tribute to the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, made up of readings and dramatizations from her writings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 4, 1969 | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a moving tribute to the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, made up of readings and dramatizations from her own writings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Beauty has never been the exclusive subject of artists, or even their aim. As poets and painters have discovered over the centuries, hell is far more dramatic than heaven. Most painters look with an equal eye on both, as the fancy moves them. But some few, and among them some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: Beyond Nightmare | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a series of readings from the works of the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, in which whites as well as blacks speak for her. Suffused not only with anger at injustice but also with a glowing concern for humanity, it is a milestone in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 6, 1969 | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

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