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This present production is filled with excellent singers and actors. Todd Duncan as Porgy and Anne Brown as Bess, both from the original production, give outstanding performances. Duncan's rendition of "I've Got Plenty of Nuttin" is especially fine. Harriet Jackson who sings "Summer-time" is a stunning Negress with a beautiful voice and a fine presence. The entire cast played with the ease and rhythmic grace that is so typically Negro and the staging of the show is very fine especially in the love duet and the group scenes...
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First it was your constant use of the abortive term Negress; your farfetched designation of pickaninnies in a Chicago department store. . . . Now it is your use of "darky-driven" trucks! (TIME, July 21, p. 33, col. 1.) Damn!! What is wrong with TIME's policy toward the American Negro in the last year and a half? It's getting so I can't read an article about the race without being insulted...
Principle In Chicago, a census taker rang the doorbell of Negress Ethel Strouther, politely began to ask questions. Vexed, she grabbed a bottle, flourished it over her head and, as he fled, shouted: "I don't talk to strange...
...larger talent of Steinbeck. He presents these types of inarticulate and stony heroism not as sentimental literary properties but as if they had a dignified, unobstreperous standing in human existence. With a constant and expert attentiveness to exactitudes of speech, gesture, action, he writes of violence (a negress cutting a white man's throat), horror (a father incapable of restraining his vomit over the 19-day corpse of his son), brutality (a man's foot pinning a fighting woman to the earth by her pregnant belly), without any slackening into the merely melodramatic. He achieves all this...