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Angel's Talent. Agee met Father Flye at St. Andrew's School near Sewanee, Tenn., where the young Rufus (as Agee was then called) went shortly after the death of his own father. To the teacher-priest, Rufus seemed a sort of wonderful, shy, gifted hillbilly. For once the priestly vocation and the artist's vocation-often hostile in direction-met in understanding. Few sons have written to their natural fathers as James Agee wrote to Father Flye. Such trust, love and the confidence in being understood seldom surmount the walls of consanguinity. The letters are also...
...misunderstanding that he believes America to be. But in Another Country this is projected on a wholly inadequate fictional frame: six characters in search of love and self-knowledge in a Dostoevskian substratum of Greenwich Village. Each has been chosen as a representative of melting-pot America. Negro Rufus Scott, a jazz musician from Harlem, has never been able to learn his identity as a man because he could never forget his identity as a Negro. His sister Ida battles the white world too, but ends by yielding to the love of her brother's best friend, an Irish...
Three times during the week, Jackie fled to Glen Ora in the Virginia countryside, where she rode to the hounds on a brown and white horse named Rufus. The hounds found no foxes, managed only to scatter a few deer. Then, turning from riding breeches to a white satin sheath skirt, a black overblouse and diamond earrings, Jackie was hostess at another of the White House parties she has initiated for performers of the fine arts. The guest of honor: famed Composer and occasional Pianist Igor Stravinsky, 79, a native of Russia who has been a U.S. citizen since...
...Cooperation is the salvation of private colleges," says President Rufus Clement of Atlanta (Negro) University. He heads the Atlanta University Center, which boasts six member colleges. Instead of six weak libraries, they have one strong one of 200,000 volumes. Four share a central-heating plant; all use their one best Shakespeare professor, physics and chemistry departments. They share dormitories, athletic fields, and may even integrate their bookkeeping. The setup lures increasingly better students (including some whites), makes Atlanta the top Negro educational center...
...Basic Mood. But there was little sense of panic in such preparations, and the nation's basic mood was well expressed by Dr. Rufus Clement, president of Georgia's Atlanta University. Said he: "If we back down at any time because of threats, it will inevitably lead to surrender. The Soviets have decided to frighten the free world into accepting their aim. They must be met-calmly...