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...doesn’t stand for “Harlem.” In case you haven’t noticed, there aren’t very many blacks here at Harvard. In fact, unless your name is Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, you might go so far as to say that there are far too few of them attending our fine institution. For this reason, it seems a pity when even one is lost, but a whole department’s worth of them leaving would be nothing short of catastrophic. According...
...amazing things that he didn't do: hoist a woman down the stairs, give someone a $50 bill to get home. Instead, he did the simple work of a man who has learned that, as he says, "we need each other." He is reminded of that every Sunday at Harlem's Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ, where a sign marked OUR CHALLENGE hangs above the choir: "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers...
...some songs to avoid offense. The 1927 "Shakin' the Blues Away" begins: "Every darkie believes that trouble won't stay if you shake it away." Later it was changed to "Everybody believes..." "Puttin' on the Ritz" was originally about Manhattan whites going uptown: "Why don't you go where Harlem sits/ Puttin' on the Ritz/ Spangled gowns upon a bevy/ Of high browns from down the levee/ All misfits/ Puttin' on the Ritz." By the time Fred Astaire sang the tune in 1946, it had become another of Berlin's twittin'-the-rich tunes: "Why don't you go where...
...Harlem on My Mind" (1933), by Ethel Waters, on "Irving Berlin: A Hundred Years." This bluesy number about Josephine Baker, the homesick toast of Paris ("and my parlez-vous will not ring true/ With Harlem on my mind"), was introduced by Waters, the most persuasive, least remembered chanteuse of the days. She does soft, she does raspy; she does both Baker and Berlin sweet justice...
...inspiration for the movie is the architecture of the buildings there. The libraries and clubs and houses and things are unlike those any other place in America.” While the film features locations as far-flung as Antarctica, Paris and Jamaica, a large brownstone in Harlem that doubles as the Tenenbaum’s residence takes center stage...