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...under the impetus of William A. Stewart's 1964 pamphlet Non-Standard Speech and the Teaching of English. This analysis has been fueled by the renaissance of black cultural pride that began to take place in the mid-1960's. The proponents of this school--Imamu Baraka, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks--maintain that Black English is a well-structured dialect that is a derivation but not a corruption of Standard English. J.L. Dillard's Black English is the first attempt to take a systematic linguistic historical look at the subject and as such offers several important insights...
...GWENDOLYN BROOKS Chicago...
...Gower, the narrator, although he has one of those lanky bodies which always manage to look ludicrous in a tunic. David Walter as Boult and Pamela Walter as Bawd make the brothel scene, the turning point of the play, work marvelously, affecting highly stylized but quite accurate Cockney accents. Gwendolyn Parker, both as Pericles' wife and his daughter, gives a beautifully convincing performance; she lives her role, sympathizing perfectly with both the faithful wife and chaste daughter of the exile prince. Her performance alone would make the production worthwhile...
...deny, for Scheel does indeed seem to relish playing the clown. A few days before he was to leave for Moscow, Scheel named his newborn daughter Andrea after none other than Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Then, in a balancing act, he gave the baby the middle name Gwendolyn because she was born on July 21, the day negotiations began for Britain's Common Market entry. Scheel's friends insist that his manner is deceptive. Says one: "He has a Rhinelander's way of being outwardly charming, obliging and serene. But behind it is tenacity and perseverance...
...rural South as well as standard English. The 1920s produced the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, when Negro poetry began to turn from the classic Eng lish lyric verse of Countee Cullen to the rhythmic, blues-style poetry of Langston Hughes. Later, came Pulitzer Prize-winning Gwendolyn Brooks, Jazz Poet Ted Joans and Margaret Walker, whom some call the mother of the black poets of the '60s. These new poets began to look on themselves not as Negro but as black. Writing primarily for a black audience, they turned their eyes toward Africa and a new-found reverence...