Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Urging the seniors at the Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises to rechannel their energies from Vietnam protest to domestic problem solving. Logue attacked white complacency in the area of urban redevelopment...
Class Day will be the focus of antiwar activity this week, Myers said. All that is planned for the Commencement Exercises on Thursday is leafleting and the wearing of white armbands for war resisters and their supporters...
...finally his use of the adjective "Negro" to connote crime and degeneracy reveals some ill-concealed white racism. The hypodermic needle he describes as "the tool of the Negro slums". He describes seeing a "pretty girl with straight blond hair" meet a "goateed Negro" in Harvard Square, talk about drugs, and then disappear together into a Harvard building--none too subtly hinting at miscegination...
...reader must bear with him through a convalescence plagued by interminable flashbacks. There is a Harlem boyhood that includes an incestuous homosexual interlude with his older brother. This is followed by a pre-hippie East Village adolescence during which Leo begins to forge a lasting black-brother, white-sister relationship with Barbara King, a Kentucky-born actress. And finally comes the highly satisfactory love affair with Christopher, a natty young militant black cat. The most important thematic progression to be noted in this work is that for the first time in a Baldwin novel, black man gets black...
...Step, Out of Date. Baldwin manages his set pieces well: a Harlem church service, the white world's Hollywood movies as seen through black eyes, a ghetto tenement flat on Saturday night. But the heterosexual love scenes are dry, joyless and dread-inducing, while some of the writing plays with trite truisms ("If you are depending on a guy for your life, you don't really much care what color he is"). The penultimate scene, in which the Negro star plays host to Barbara's white old-Kentucky-home family, seems to have been lifted...