Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glad that the ten black writers who responded to William Styron's Nat Turner [July 12] weren't around when Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. If this novel had been repressed because of stock characters and a failure to understand the Negro character, I don't know what would have happened to the abolition movement...
Native Son. To understand Miró it is perhaps more important to remember that he is a native of Spain than to try placing him in a particular artistic movement. The Farm, finished in 1922 and bought soon afterward by Novelist Ernest Hemingway for $200 in Paris, is one of Miró's earliest efforts to distill the essence of Spain and the way in which its savage, whimsical, passionate people still cling close to the earth. The scene depicts the farm bought by his father, a Barcelona goldsmith, at Montroig, a coastal village in Catalonia...
...Stanley Elkin and A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker. Manhattan-born Alfred Gross man, 41, who has written three other novels in the same vein, has been praised for his facility with a special, caviar kind of black humor that only the hip can hope to fully understand. Actually, The Do-Gooders is a variation of Terry Southern's amoral, completely antisocial Magic Christian, but it is also disastrously lacking in Southern's wild, anarchistic imagination...
...experience more poignantly: "I've gone through the whole bit. There was a time when I was 'thinking white' like everyone else; then I went through a period of hating everybody. I've come to the conclusion that there are always a few people who understand you and know how you feel. When you find them, it doesn't matter what they are-red, black, white, or whatever-you've got to take a chance with those people...
...that there are not ample hints in the text of possible directions towards which the play could have been pitted. One such is the line towards the end of the play delivered by Dr. Bonfant, "One must never understand one's enemies . . . One must never understand anyone for that matter or one will die of it." This strikes a theme so rich, with its Hamlet-like overtones and its implications about the difficulties of taking violent revolutionary political action that a play constructed around it could have been immensely profitable...