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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold Reiss's drawings of Negroes because he "made his colored people look...
...might prefer the attitude typified by two men now facing death in a Massachusetts prison who are proud of calloused hands. And yet again, it may be the top-hatted labour M. P.'s who will reach their goal sooner. The thought and laws of England have often changed but its polish remains the same...
...sports turn to the Lampoon as an out-let? Is the Lampoon editor too happy go-Lucky to care for his health and does he fall a ready victim: or is it merely that, as we know in medicine, tuberculosis is seldom a depressing disease--in fact, is often characterized by an unusual quickness of mind and optimism of spirit...
...appalling thing to see a great State in the full exercise of its faculties, steer deliberately toward an act of profound and irrevocable injustice. Judicial murder has often been committed by mistake, by inadvertence, or through an accidental accumulation of misleading circumstancial evidence. There is no perfect justice in human affairs. But this is not a case of stumbling in the dark while trying to see: it is a case of wilfully closing eyes to the light. It is not necessary that justice should be always achieved; it is necessary that we have the will to achieve justice...
Revolt in the Desert. Colonel Lawrence tells what he did simply, occasionally with power, always with insight, often in words assembled like so many pearls; but not, on the whole, in a manner to sustain interest. Apparently the abridgment was intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book...