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...ANGRY VOICES OF WATTS: AN NBC NEWS INQUIRY (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Budd Schulberg's writers' workshop for young Negroes in Watts (TIME, July 22) is the focal point for this report, which will include poems, essays and short stories written by Schulberg's students...
...year-old writer, the workshop at Watts has been his toughest task since the days when he prowled the docks gathering material for the screenplay of On the Waterfront. When the Westminster Association announced his first class, ten young Negroes signed up, but only two bothered to show. Undiscouraged, Schulberg kept at it, eventually conquered the distrust of his students. Now he has 18 regulars, ranging from boys in their teens to unemployed rniddle-aged workers...
...outsiders, the class seems like scarcely organized chaos. Schulberg, wearing chinos and loafers, sits on a sofa. Young Negroes in Bermudas and sawed-off jeans, women in simple dresses, are grouped around him on threadbare chairs. While one of the writers reads from his latest work, or Schulberg lectures on the mechanics of publishing, a stranger may enter the room to bang away at the scarred upright piano...
...Full of Talent." Schulberg has found that the ghetto is "full of talent, full of innate ability," and his charges have already produced enough poetry to consider publishing an anthology to be called Voices of Watts (see box). Star pupil is unquestionably Johnie Scott, 20, who was born in the ward of a women's prison, nonetheless won a scholarship to Harvard but dropped out after a year. Scott, whose poem bad news has been published in Los Angeles magazine, has been contacted by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and Harper's magazine, is planning to return to college...
Gentle in his comments, Schulberg urges his budding poets and playwrights to express their own personal experience of life in a black ghetto, spends much of his class answering such questions as, "Do you think the poem's finished?" or "How do I approach a publisher?" Even more than by the vivid quality of the work produced by his class, Schulberg is impressed by the way his writers cooperate and encourage one another. "I wouldn't have believed they would listen so intently to each other's work," he says. "They listen and are moved." In turn...