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...that more blacks than whites regard Jackson as a threadbare old charlatan. (One may remember that Martin Luther King Jr. at the time of his death had come to be regarded somewhat dismissively in the black community; they called him, satirically, "De Lawd...
...Woman Now; It Ain 't Necessarily So. More subtle, but no less impressive, are the choruses, which give voice to the residents of Catfish Row: their lamentation in Gone, Gone, Gone, their exuberance in Ain't Got No Shame, their terror in Oh, de Lawd Shake de Heavens. Proudly, Gershwin considered his work "the greatest music composed in America," and some...
...cold as the belly of a trout," he wrote in Out of My League. "It was a disclosure which sent the voice spinning off in a cracker-Cassandra's wail of doom. 'Mah God!' it cried out, 'y'all gonna faint out heah. Lawd Almahty! Y'gonna faint...
Died. Rex Ingram, 73, veteran black actor, whose resonant voice and commanding figure graced dozens of plays (The Emperor Jones, Cabin in the Sky, Porgy) and Hollywood films, most notably when he played De Lawd in 1936's The Green Pastures; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...have a dream." There were other components in King's leadership: his unusual stature among whites (culminating in the Nobel Prize), the combination of his Southern rural style with Gandhian ideals, and an almost unassailable dignity respected by both blacks and whites. Negroes kiddingly called him "De Lawd," but it was particularly important that King was a kind of black father in a Negro society of matriarchal orientation. He was an example to the young of unique manhood, asserting strength in the apparent passivity of nonviolence...