Word: malcolm
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Epps is also the author of a number of articles on Civil Rights and Malcolm X. An American Member of the Signet Society, he is currently writing a book entitled Malcolm X at Harvard which will include his own introduction and Malcolm X's three speeches at Harvard. This series, Epps points out, is indicative of the major phases Malcolm X went through. The first lecture given in 1961 at the Law School Forum, when he appeared as the disciple of Elijah Muhammad, was "rigid and fanatic and filled with Black Nationalist rhetoric...
...Critic Malcolm Cowley provides some humor, purring out cultured inanities at the behest of two student interviewers. To Cowley and his interviewers literature appears to be a collection of names and decades. In one daring tautology, Cowley concludes that the key to the Golden Twenties was that its writers "weren't burdened with all the rules and precepts and great examples that were more or less imposed on the writers who followed them...
...days, he forgot to put articles in his English ("I had best steak of my life in Cleveland airport"); now he speaks it fluently. He has recently gone out of his way to make a second career as a duo pianist, sharing the billing with St. Louisian Malcolm Frager. And though still wryly withdrawn, he has lately come to admit that he likes Americans in general: "The applause is so nice; American audiences are so very, very warm...
...five. But of the season's dozen hits he came up with four: Marat/Sade, Inadmissible Evidence, Cactus Flower, Philadelphia, Here 1 Come! And he also has Dolly!, now in its third winter and still running strong. Without Merrick's contributions the dying season, in which plays by Edward Albee (Malcolm), Tennessee Williams (Slapstick Tragedy), and William Inge (Where's Daddy?) succumbed in swift succession, could fairly be declared a calamity and Broadway a disaster area. With Merrick's offerings, 1965-66 will be recorded as a minor sinking spell in the long decline of legit...
...luck comes in threes: the past eight weeks have provided a melancholy chapter in U.S. dramatic history. Tennessee Williams (Slapstick Tragedy), Edward Albee (Malcolm) and William Inge have written by far their worst plays...