Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...identify with Judaism's struggle for freedom as portrayed in the Old Testament. Yet, like many conservative white Protestants, he was taught to scorn Jews as a people cursed by deicide. "All of us black people who lived in the neighborhood hated Jews," recalled the late Novelist Rich ard Wright, writing of his Southern boy hood in Black Boy, "not because they exploited us, but because we had been taught at home and in Sunday school that Jews were 'Christ killers.' We black children ? seven, eight and nine years of age ? used...
Died. Welton Becket, 66, master architect whose clean, functional structures grace five continents; of congestive heart failure; in Los Angeles. Becket's eclectic approach lacked the individuality of a Mies van der Rohe or a Frank Lloyd Wright. "We are trying to solve the client's problems, and it is out of the solution of those problems that the design evolves," said Becket. And from his drawing board came buildings for ten of the U.S.'s top industrial firms, six of its leading banking houses and five of its largest insurance companies, as well as plans...
SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER by James Wright. 58 pages. Wesleyan...
...remembrance of his uncle, dead in Ohio, the wayward life in Minneapolis, the cold loneliness of a man beside the river or hunched in a freight car-these are elements captured in James Wright's latest book of poems. As in his earlier works, the Midwest is the center of his poetic world...
...tribute to the intensity of his vision that Wright's poetry-distilled to the essential, like Robert Frost's-does make the reader cluck with the ancient pity...