Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incongruous relationship to the universe, of estrangement from his fellows, of aloneness within his family, of the inadequacy of language, the dearth of feeling and the unnerving pressure of physical objects. It is a view of man as a solitude, an island, a kind of Robinson crucified, with the ultimate unmeaning-death-lying ahead...
When asked to name the fastest rising Negro businessman in the U.S., many Negro leaders answer as quickly as they can say Jackie Robinson. The former Brooklyn baseball demigod, now greying and widening at 47, holds high executive positions in a bank, an insurance company and a professional football team, also earns money as a popular speaker at Jewish community centers (usual subject: how minority groups can help each other) and as an accomplished political aide...
...this means lots of jack for Jack. He lives in a $75,000 house in Stamford, Conn., with his wife, who is an assistant professor of nursing at Yale, and his three children, one of whom is a Purple Heart veteran of Viet Nam. Robinson drives a greenish-grey Lincoln: he rejects Cadillacs as "too ostentatious." He has a net worth of at least $200,000. And his career clearly means more than affluence to the man who, in 1947, broke baseball's color bar. "After the marches and the demonstrations," says he, "the next frontier for the Negro...
...private life was pretty disheveled. Today's sports hero is more widely known, but loses glamour when seen combing greasy kid stuff out of his hair. Americans like their heroes earthy, whether it is Ted Williams or Casey Stengel-but he must not be too loutish. Jackie Robinson is elected because he displayed grace under the pressure of breaking the color bar in baseball. Still, the arena is crowded; so many good athletes are on view that heroes, as distinct from mere record breakers, are scarce...
Understandably, Buckley has trouble finding targets. Kenneth Galbraith and Jackie Robinson declined on the grounds that the honorarium, $320, was insufficient. Senator William Fulbright didn't even reply to his invitation, and both Bobby and Teddy Kennedy begged off (TIME, April 8). A shortage of guests is the only thing that could stop Firing Line from running forever. That wouldn't necessarily put Buckley out of show business. Last week, after taping a program on the U.S. theater, his guest, David Merrick, offered him a Broadway part. Buckley declined. He is his own best producer...