Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, upon meeting Mary Ann Evans in 1848, said she possessed "a calm, serious soul." Twenty years later a young American visitor to London encountered Mary Ann, now famous as George Eliot. "Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father. "A mingled sagacity and sweetness--a broad hint of a great underlying world of reserve, knowledge, pride and power." Two years before her death in 1880, Ivan Turgenev raised his glass at a party in an English country house and proposed a toast to Eliot: "The greatest living...
...real normal." Better than normal. He shines in school, plays Cupid between his mom (Cher) and a rowdy old friend (Sam Elliott), and falls into tender love with a City Lights sweetie (Laura Dern) who can see only his good heart and humor. Metaphorically, Rocky is the beautiful soul hidden in every shy teenager with a bad case of zits...
...Back then, he characterized himself as "a full time revolutionary in the struggle for black liberation in America." His posts as chairman of the Black House Council and Minister Of Information for the Panthers continually placed him on the FBI's list of "potentially dangerous individuals." In this spirit, Soul On Ice reads much like The Communist Manifesto or The Declaration Of Independence. It is an Afro-American call-to-arms...
...believed that the Black movement should concentrate on educating all races, especially young people, about suffering of Blacks and the injustices brought upon them. This focus was a direct repudiation of the factics of action groups like the Panthers that tried to overthrow society. The Fire Next Time, unlike Soul On Ice, is not concerned with history or politics but rather with how it feels to be an outsider, to be Black in a white world. Baldwin believed you can't force society to change, that you have to change attitudes before you can change behavior. For this commitment...
...this commitment something that Baldwin tosses off to make a living Baldwin's work bespeaks a conviction that goes beyond even Cleaver's words, as brilliant is those are. Indeed, Cleaver's writings now seem invalid, not because the sentiments expressed in Soul On Ice have become irrelevant, but because the author has not lived up to his work. Today's Black leaders especially Jesse Jackson can learn a lot from Baldwin's constant level-heads devotion to the Black interest. the Pussycat that roared...