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...Gwendolyn Gregory, special assistant to the director of the Civil Rights office, said she has had informal contact with the British trustees of the scholarship fund and she said she believes they are willing to consider a change in the sex requirement...
Ossie Davis, L.H.D., playwright. You have brought back to the Negro theater oldfashioned, honest laughter. Gwendolyn Brooks, Lit.D., poet...
...DIRECTORS (they may have "called each other a lot of other things first" before they called each other brother) have imported a sense of vigor to most of the cast. As Jack's intended Gwendolyn, Marie Kohler is delectable in both her appearance and her acting. Kohler's lines seem to roll effortlessly off her tongue with the haughty tone in which they were written to be delivered. Her counterpart, Algernon's Cecily, with whom she shares the funniest scene in the comedy, is not as stylish; Anne Ames, in her carriage and visage, mistakes movement for animation. Stephen Zinsser...
...production -- though it occasionally adulterates its amusing recipe -- rarely forgets that, as Gwendolyn says, "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing." It is not important to be earnest, but simply to be Ernest...
...more reason why the black woman can ill afford to become the silent woman, content with cooking soul food and making incoherent baby talk at the dinner table in the name of black manhood." Most black women do not take issue with that view. But, like Chicago Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, they do not believe that ardent feminism is the logical alternative. Says Brooks: "Today's black men, at last flamingly assertive and proud, need their black women beside them, not organizing against them...