Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawd Today, by Richard Wright. Writ ten before Native Son, but now published for the first time (three years after Wright's death), this novel of a brutalized Chicago Negro in the 1930s is a grim reminder of a time, not long ago, when the pain caused by race prejudice was mainly economic...
...figures-as in Sartre's No Exit-in shallow doorless and windowless spaces, amputated their legs, and left them relying on crutches. The Burial (see color) shows a legless living cadaver sprawled in a coffin, stifling back a scream with his hand-a scream that comes from "the pain of knowledge of that death in life which we begin experiencing early," Greene explains. Behind the coffin lid, a mourner gestures upward as if in hope. But his candle remains unlit...
...story comes from an early fourteenth century tale: a lower cleric (the word priest used in the opera is misleading) condemns a group of five frivolous dancers to dance in pain for a year; he then finds his daughter among them but refuses to forgive her. After her death at the end of the year, he banishes her body to unblessed ground...
...strike affected the retailers because they couldn't advertise; it curtailed the wholesalers and worked all the way back to the manufacturers," said Executive Secretary Harry Moser of the Retail Merchants' Association. "It hurt everybody." And there is no way to ease the pain. All of it, said the publishers, is money "that has gone down the drain. It cannot be recovered...
Common Demand. Speaking of Wright today, Baldwin observes: "Today's racial manifestoes are being written very differently." Where is the difference? With Wright, the pain of being a Negro is basically economic-its site is mainly in the pocket. With Baldwin, the pain suffuses the whole man, so that he cannot even stand the white liberals who would "offer" him the equality that is his by right...