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MALCOLM X: THE MAN AND HIS TIMES edited by John Henrik Clarke. 320 pages. Macmillan. $7.95. Since his murder, Malcolm X's autobiography has sold close to two million copies, and he has captured the imagination of the young and the black as a martyred leader. This collection of comments by approving observers helps explain...
...countless voters to stick with a known quantity. The chief loser was Sweden's tiny Communist Party, which normally inherits any protest votes from the Social Democrats' left. This time it was the Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg clothing-store tycoon. Hermansson regularly ignores Moscow's line, and the party has become so bourgeois that...
MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis. The three opening productions, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, John Arden's study of political dissent, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, and The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen's treatise on creative genius, rotate through August. Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opens Aug. 6, and Merton of the Movies, by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, joins the repertory Sept...
WILLIAM STYRON'S NAT TURNER: TEN BLACK WRITERS RESPOND. Edited by John Henrik Clarke. 120 pages. Beacon Press...
...particularly difficult in this case, since there is actually very little known about Turner himself or the rebellion. But since the ultimate sources of characterizations and events in fiction lie deep in the creative unconscious, such arguments, even if historically true, border on irrelevancy. The essayists, led by John Henrik Clarke, an editor of the militant Negro magazine Freedomways, repeat the same points endlessly and separately, but this does not necessarily validate them. Nor does a reprinting of the full text of the original confessions of Nat Turner seem in any way to enhance their position...