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Even if you can't predict your future, tell us what you do know Please return your questionnaire to the Office of Graduate & Career Plans, or complete one there or call UN 8-7600, ext. 2595, and give the information over the telephone...
...with which he made large literary waves during the '50s, said goodbye to psychology and presented people and their actions as reflected in surface appearances and objective happenings. In 1961 he wrote the haunting, memorable Last Year at Marienbad, a movie in which it was marvelously impossible to tell who (if anyone) was doing what (if anything) to whom, let alone...
...TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE by James Baldwin. 484 pages. Dial...
...other James Baldwin is the questing novelist, the private man loaded down with personal problems that he must defeat-or be defeated by. This is the Baldwin who with his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, marvelously evoked a Harlem boyhood nurtured in a storefront church. It is the Baldwin who, with post-Gide candor, courageously rendered the homosexual experience in his second novel, Giovanni's Room. But this is also the writer who six years ago turned out the deeply disappointing novel, Another Country, a lengthy excursion into the world of bisexuality...
White Sister, Black Cat. This new book is further evidence that as a fictioneer Baldwin is in great danger of becoming drearily irrelevant. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone rambles like a milk train over the same run that Baldwin covered in Another Country, creaks over the same hard ground, sounds the same blast about the Negro's condition, rattles the same rationale for homosexuality: "My terrible need to lie down, to breathe deep, to weep long and loud, to be held in human arms, almost any human arms, to hide my face...