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...outwaits a series of grotesque fellow-tourist suitors who make fools of them selves by groveling before the peanut-butter-and-raisin-bread-chomping child as if paying homage to a Greek goddess...
...lyrics caused Ebony to pronounce him "a hip Negro folk poet" Lorraine (A Raisin in the Sun) Hansberry calls him "a startling genius." But the 150-odd songs he has written mostly dote on the city's familiar figures, black and white alike, and on private themes of wonder and frailty. "Emotion has to be the heart of the song,"Brown says. "You make the people feel; they make themselves think." Expression of Hope. Ardent and boyish at 35, Brown grew up on Chicago's South Side. He attended three colleges without success, finally took a halfhearted fling...
Purlie Judson somewhat resembles the frustrated, overambitious hero of A Raisin in the Sun, but Raisin's hero grew to recognize that in race relations, as in life, there are no short cuts, and he courageously set his face toward selfdiscipline, hard work and fair play. Purlie gains no such self-victory, and he slips into his pulpit at play's end to deliver a glib sermonette on brotherhood, which comes, like Purlie Victorious itself, from the depths of his tonsils...
...myself," Actor Sidney Poitier, 34, reflected a while ago, "I'm an average Joe Blow Negro. But as the cats say in my area, I'm out there wailing for us all." Now, adhering to the script of his Broadway and Hollywood hit, A Raisin in the Sun, Miami-born Poitier has moved into a previously all-white exurban area of New York's Westchester County. Ensconced with his wife and four daughters in a newly purchased twelve-room Tudor house in Mount Pleasant, Poitier was enjoying a warm reception from virtually all of his neighbors...
...Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 Broadway hit about Chicago's black belt makes a superior soap opera...