Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus it is that he visits Ingmar Bergman and sees him as a Northern Protestant, a man reminiscent, incredibly enough, of "the black preachers of my childhood." In Norman Mailer, Baldwin finds a man who cannot give up what Baldwin terms "the myth of the sexuality of Negroes". Richard Wright to him is a tragic figure, a man who, by the time of his death, had estranged himself from American Negroes and who snubbed Africans, and so ended his life "wandering in a no-man's land between the black world and the white...
...essay on Wright is, actually, far better than the piece on Mailer, which for the most part consists of behind-the-literary-scenes action that doesn't throw much light on either Mailer or Baldwin. It is further disappointing for the way it glosses over Mailer's controversial wife-stabbing Greenwich Village party last Fall...
...profile of Richard Wright, by contrast, is an excellent and penetrating commentary. Baldwin traces his friendship with Wright from the start of his own first novel, then relates their quarrels and finally Baldwin's disillusionment with Wright in Paris. Negro intellectuals in France all felt that Wright had deserted the American Negro, and that he considered himself above the Africans. Baldwin himself was horrified at the realization that all this was some-how due to Wright's own American Negro heritage, which, after his rise to "acceptance", produced an irreparable breach between Africans and himself and an individual disdain...
Timothy Jenkins and Marian Wright, students at Yale Law School, and Thomas Hayden, one of two northern students beaten up while working with SNCC in McComb two weeks ago, addressed the group...
...With Wright running the attack Memphis State might be a match on any given Saturday for any team in the U.S. So far this season, the aroused Tigers have casually mowed down such opponents as Tulsa (48-12), The Citadel (40-0) and Hardin-Simmons (56-0). But nobody-knows just how strong Memphis State really is; few big-time football schools will risk their carefully built reputations to find out. For next year, though, Coach Murphy already has scheduled top-ranked Mississippi, and he is optimistic about Memphis State's chances of crashing the big time...