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Servant With a Song. Whether the center can do it any better remains unproved. Some church leaders are critical of what seems to be its blithe as sumption that God endorses everything about the Negro freedom movement, from Martin Luther King's S.C.L.C. to LeRoi Jones (last spring the center's entire staff and student body dropped everything to march at Selma). Moreover, while its 127 trainees have unquestionably been shaken by their experience there, some questions about the center's relevance remain: not all ministers are summoned to be worker-priests, and there is a vital...
...theater's past and an alertness to the world around him. Says he: "I have to have the largest possible working frame of reference. I have to know about jazz, Viet Nam, what's going on in Washington, the experimentation and adventures in tonality. If Baldwin or LeRoi Jones uses Harlem argot, I've got to know what it means." His familiarity with music and dance enables him to discuss a musical from book through choreography and score with unusual expertise. "Music is my religion," he explains. "Where others might go to church when they...
...play Dutchman, Negro Writer LeRoi Jones pits a decent, unbelligerent young Negro against a dirty-mouthed white girl, symbol of decadence and cruelty, and lets her kill him. In Jones's The Toilet, eight Negroes abuse a white boy and then beat him up. During open-end discussions at Manhattan's Village Vanguard last winter, Jones put an extra racial twist on the death of two white civil rights workers murdered last summer in Mississippi. "Those boys were just artifacts−artifacts, man. They weren't real. I won't mourn them. I have...
...During LeRoi Jones's outburst at the Village Vanguard, a small, rotund, bespectacled man, shaken with emotion, arose. "As a Jew and a white man, I hear you," he said. "What do you want us to do? What on earth do you want me to do?" Jones hit a nihilistic bottom. "Do, man? There's nothing you can do!" Nonetheless, the bulk of whites, some consciously forgetting and some consciously remembering their fears after Watts, will continue to do something. But the Negro himself must do as much...
...SLAVE and THE TOILET have been written with a tongue of obscene fire, and the people Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones obviously intends to sear are liberal white intellectual race-relation do-gooders...