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...town. To them, the Supreme Court's decision comes hard. The father, a nonentity in his white boss's house but a patriarch in his own, is simply distressed by the news: "I don' know . . . But I cain't see Saul goin' to school wid white kids ... I cain't see me sittin' side o' Mistah Charles on the bus neitha . . I think they's plenty mo' feel the same way. I hope they don' push...
Sargent resolved to put the English Channel between himself and his detractors. He took an ornate studio on London's Tite Street, later installed his wid owed mother and unmarried sister in a flat around the corner. To be "done by Sargent" became the posh thing; celebrities flocked to his studio. But instead of immortalizing, he rather paralyzed most of them, turning them into clotheshorses, handsome or beautiful as the case might be. having elegant gestures and bored, sleepy expressions...
...cooks' school, hopes to wind up in the galley of the Queen Mary. Collis wants to be a writer. Dickson expects to get a teaching job. But one Trinidadian, known simply as Strange Man, scoffs at education as a "rope they givin' you to hang yuhself wid." His own reason for emigrating is simple: "Well, 'tis simply because ah little tired. Ah sick, bored." London, for these island innocents, becomes the arena of a bitter struggle for survival. They face race discrimination, a housing shortage, a shortage of jobs. Before long, the air is heavy with bitterness...
...London Daily Mail ran a cartoon of the Prime Minister dressed in cowboy boots, holding a ten-gallon hat and speaking a Fleet Street version of U.S. dialect: "Waal folks, I been away quite a piece, I guess, and it sure is mighty fine to be back here wid youse guys on dis li'l ol' island...
Missing in most new, dehydrated record versions was old Lead Belly's closing verse, moaned by "de man," Lead Belly used to explain, "wid his head hung down, cryin...