The Price of the Ticket ? The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Baldwin, James
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...Concrete facts and people lose their interest to him except as they can be used to construct this scenario...
...long-range bomber force of fewer than 300 obsolescent B-52s, took two crucia I decisions in 1981: to initiate production of the B-1B, which began in 1985, and to accelerate development of an Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB) purportedly "invisible" to radar...
...More comprehensively, he says that "a stranger might find the fact that there are any black people at all still alive in America something to write home about...
...This seems to have given Walter Lowe of Playboy the idea of calling in James Baldwin from his expatriate eyrie in St...
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...Racism became a highly charged factor in Western democratic politics only after the Second World War, and primarily through the sacrifice of white men: the millions upon millions of Jews, gypsies, and others who were slaughtered in the It happens at every party I throw...
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...revisionist states and terrorism...
...From becoming an artist who was a witness to what he described with a tragic sense rooted in the common humanity of all people, he metamorphosed again, into a shrill and thin-voiced political agitator, using words as a tool to manipulate rather than to inform, to destroy rather than enhance his reader'sunderstanding of human experience...
...Only a fabulist would have predicted that it would have such staying power...
...His direct effect on writers like Conrad, Edith Wharton, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Daisy Miller begetting Daisy Buchanan), and thus on later writers like Cheever, Updike, Naipaul, and Salinger is obvious...
...It is a testament to the power of black music and an example of how soul-stifling success can be when its fruits are not shared...
...So were his victims...
...The author examines such topics as arms control and the deterrence of war in the nuclear age...
...Rhapsodizing Decision-Making in Communist Countries: An Inside Yew...
...as it were he strains to become a nigger...
...Although the pion to build 100 B-lBs and 132 ATBs will afford the United States a modem bomberforce byte late 1990s, the author contends that this force may not be large enough to fulfill the mounting strategic and nonstrategic bombing requirementsnow facing the air-breathing leg of the strategic triad...
...Motown was a "family" in the best sense of the word, with founder Berry Gordy, Jr., the undisputed father figure...
...The other major change is the franker discussion of the psychosexual side of James and some of his friends like Morton Fullerton...
...This is the figure who will assume a raging propagandist role in convoluted mandarin prose, uttering shallow political bromides and bombastic rubbish about America, about history, and about almost anything else he touches...
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...The non-abstract human connection between Baldwin the writer and the real people and real things he knows at first hand predominates in the first part of the book, keeping the ranting public spokesman in second place, and incidentally showing Baldwin as a literary "natural" of superb and authentic talent, whose style at its best achieves a fine dignity and verbal grace...
...On a trip to America in the real world...
...Lexicon of Soviet Political Terms...
...This is music with power...
...apparently conscious of the white middle-class flavor of his literary mask, he struggles to climb down and out of it...
...The authors examine the roles of the Politburo, "Elected Secretariat," Defense Council, Central Committee, and other Party bodies and government ministries...
...There is no evidence that James was anything but celibate, or that his relationship with people like Hendrik Andersen and Hugh Walpole was any-thing but platonic...
...and the Soviet Union's offensive buildup and the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative...
...But consider a few episodes...
...In Atlanta as Partisan Review'stoken black he appears to change his mind about all that...
...By Jeffrey Record...
...Cummings remarked that when Americans stop being themselves they start behaving like one another...
...Among other things this openness means that the American has had a scope for creating his own identity not merely as a poseur or con man, but as an ordinary citizen—which is far wider than in other countries...
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...He finds the present JCS structure compatible with equitable and verifiable arms control agreements, and urges Congress to proceed cautiously with changes in the JCS structure which would centralize the power and authority of the top military echelon...
...These real individuals are slowly being submerged in a grand mass of abstract blacks over whom Baldwin, like the white liberals (one is tempted to say, other white liberals), expresses virtuous outrage and helplessness...
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...And this is a discovery which not only brings to an end the alienation of the American from himself, but which also makes clear to him, for the first time, the extent of his involvement in the life of Europe...
...he and his victims were black, and the carnage was a moral extension of white America's oppression of blacks...
...At a Columbia reunion, "Just My Imagination" sparks a debate of almost Talmudic attention to detail and nuance...
...Since none of the recent military reform studies calling for the reorganization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff addresses its potential impact on U.S arms control policy, the author reviews the record of theJCS in the arms control policymaking process, with special attention to the nuclear test ban, the ABM debate, SALT I and II, START, and INF...
...This is fair enough as observation, but Baldwin is not really interested in the journalistic aperlcu...
...When the first persona is engaged in a subject with sympathetic imagination, the power and urgency of the writing transcend the "color" aspect...
...Strategic Defense and Extended Deterrence: A New Transatlantic Debate...
...A year or so ago, Joseph Epstein made two points about Edel's biography in the New Criterion that are worth repeating: first, that, despite its enormous length, it is the only modern literary biography that we might wish longer...
...This is the artist who will go on to become a successful novelist...
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...Outline of Lebanese history—the illusion of stability and progress...
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...abridgement of the original five volumes...
...ii is to feel virtuous, outraged, helpless, as though his continuing presence among us were somehow analogous to disease...
...Years ago the poet e.e...
...That is why, for example, a black boy preacher from the Harlem ghetto was able to forge for himself a new identity as a quintessentially middle-class literary artist...
...Carefully he sketches out a theory that the "Christian world" is an anti-black conspiracy, and takes it to a spectacular peak of self-contradictory arrogance, equating anti-black prejudice with the "sin against the Holy Ghost...
...Terrorism as State-Sponsored Covert Warfare...
...Written from a part of the United States where slavery was legal "when we began," this showed Baldwin's continuing failure to grasp history...
...Visiting America to report on the South for Partisan Review, he slips again into the uniform of ethnic obsession: It must be said that the racial setup of the South is not, for a Negro, very different from the racial setup in the North...
...His influence has been enormous...
...He may review a book, discuss films, offer advice on writing fiction, but these are sidesteps from his central manie, temporary excursions like his passing tribute to a white school-teacher, or the mention of his white "buddies" like Ava Gardner...
...In the Name of Love" no less than 27 times, and every girl in the place follows in imitation his boozy yet inspired choreography with misty, half-closed eyes...
...By James E. Dougherty...
...Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law...
...English poetry, despite Thomas Hardy, had softened to the consistency of bread pudding by the early twentieth century...
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...The answer must be more than nostalgia...
...And despite the gaudy entre-nousnoires rhetoric of The Fire Next Time, so is James Baldwin...
...His subject was one of the most charming of men, both in his writing and in his delicate personal relations, and Edel lets this quality infuse the en-tire work...
...86 Maple Ave...
...From the very outset, in a 1948 report on Harlem for Commentary, Baldwin gives evidence of two distinct personalities...
...Nevertheless, under the elegant surface the hectoring orator is always there, popping up to display a narrow obsession with the big "black" picture for which Baldwin's education (apparently picked up from friends, family, the street, and the public library) has not equipped him...
...and other free nations...
...In Baldwin a different and more complex transformation took place, clearly visible in The Price of the Ticket and sealed in The Evidence of Things Not Seen...
...He was convicted on an indictment that did not technically cover all the child and teenage bodies (there were twenty-eight of them) in the case...
...Holocaust...
...But how much more noble was James's course than the absurd posturing of his successors...
...1986...
...Growing up in America, and returning there for visits, I have noticed how American non-conformists are prone to seek out other people who nonconform in the same way that they do—and, as we saw with the hippies, in the same uniform...
...Judging from the text, remarkably little research went into this remarkably large theme...
...Unfortunately, discussion of this find meant cutting much of Edel's intelligent criticism of this baffling novella in the earlier edition...
...by definition, can never be racist...
...Baldwin's flight into an expatriate life in France shows him deliberately writing for the first time beyond the limits of his racial obsession As an alien in a foreign land he stands on common ground with black and white Yanks, one more Amerloque like all the others trying to use the old world for a new womb...
...Academic scribblers have spent decades tracing antecedents and allusions in Eliot's poetry...
...Edel has not found the smoking gun people like Gore Vidal probably hoped he would...
...Come on.,, Such is the importance of vintage sixties Motown to my generation...
...Paul de Vence to write up the case—that is, to write it up black...
...By Jeffrey Record...
...But if you cannot read James for his own sake, or for the sake of his influence, you should read him for the sake of reading Leon Edel's biography—just as a good reason to read Proust is to read Painter's biography...
...And has it been noted that the indirections of speech in the work of modern playwrights like Harold Pinter, with their subtle omissions and veiled allusions, closely resemble the pattern of dialogue in James's late novels, writ-ten when the plays of Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero dominated the boards...
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...As for democracy, in America, the ballot "cannot create autonomy," which means that a white electoral majority and racist white supremacy are identical and that being white automatically entails guilt for "destroying hundreds of thousands of black lives...
...the title taken from a Supremes hit of 1964), Nelson George, whose previous credits include a biography of Michael Jackson, tells the story of Motown, and why it is just not the same anymore...
...His ethnocentric bias allows no awareness that, for instance, the Chinese peasants who built America's railways lived more horribly than slaves, or that in Baldwin's own time the Nisei were suffering in America's Western concentration camps...
...and, in a manner of speaking, so was the administration of Atlanta where he was caught and tried...
...The following year, back in the United States and speaking to students at Kalamazoo College, he rounds off his insight: The one thing that Americans have in common is that they have no identity apart from the identity which is being achieved on this continent...
...The man who permits you to injure him deserves your vengeance: He also will receive it .. . Over sixty now, Baldwin has indeed received that vengeance, and in a bitter, cruel form: his own conversion to racism...
...No Motown...
...As the element of abstraction grows, another change takes place in the writer's persona, more strange than either one we have seen so far...
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...1986...
...Not just a glossary of Soviet terms—a guide to how Soviet society actually works...
...At a Boston party that is dragging, the Great Gustayson plays "Stop...
...With cadences and a tone borrowed from Henry James, Baldwin tries to fathom what it is to be a nigger (his word...
...this is an artist coming to terms with human beings rather than waving a set of minstrel puppets...
...The other is a malicious dilettante who writes from some meta-physical point outside, trading in abusive generality...
...Zemtsov, formerly a high-ranking Soviet academic, is now Director of the Israel Research Institute of Contemporary Society...
...As for the abstract white oppressive masses, Americans "are the most violent and dishonorable people in the world...
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...In a typical sentence he says: "North Americans live in a country [sic] that, in the generality, and, emphatically, in action, believes that nothing is more important than being White...
...He makes his first appearance in an aside dealing with a 1947 Ebony editorial, in which the magazine condemns black racism, notes that American blacks are better off than many starving Europeans, and that in any case they have "come a long way...
...He sets up his picture of black misery and of white hatred not as a symptom of a crumbling order in the South, but as a permanent, massive, and generally American falling away from "the standards of human freedom with which we began...
...Describing his father's funeral and the almost simultaneous birth of his baby sister, he fuses emotion and thought into a touching vision...
...it is quite different to go on record in print with this slabby racist tract, which could easily have been written by Arthur de Gobineau in blackface, or appeared in a "black" version of Der Stiirmer...
...This is not the English necessity, or the Chinese necessity, or the French necessity, but they are born into a framework which allows them their identity...
...v, 37pp...
...The Final Solution...
...But in the next decade this is the actual view of real white folks: Marlon Brando, Leonard Bernstein, Vanessa Redgrave, and others are seeing blacks exactly in the manner of that quote...
...yet one cannot define Motown in the same way one can define surf music or the Phil Spector Wall of Sound...
...Edel has discovered nothing new about James that is important...
...But the accomplishment remained an intellectual exercise...
...the arms race and the causes of conflict...
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...It is incredible that the longest entry in the index under "Henry James" is "Psychosexual Problems...
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...As for blacks and American politics, well...
...Having left America because he "wanted to find out in what way the specialness of my experience could be made to connect me with other people instead of dividing me from them," he had managed to discover a tie with all other Americans which transcended the barriers of color and race...
...Wanniski's guide is great fun and his insights into the fourth estate make the MediaGuide a hard book to put down...
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...He was provoked by the misery around him in Harlem, he was a young man in his early twenties of severely limited education, and he was strongly moved by a wish to help the suffering people he knew...
...blacks may be using the vote to outwit the final solution...
...By Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr...
...Lest anyone grow uneasy about these extremes, it is made clear that suffering has conferred a special nobility of soul upon blacks, and that "the powerless, 'What Brecht said, when told these people were innocent, was: "The more innocent they are, the more they deserved to die...
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...someone nails me...
...Well, you can see what's going on here...
...The alienation of the artist was to come into fashion a few years after James's death and still remains with us...
...His raving about genocide might have been tempered by the realization that American black influence is not just a matter of white guilt over slavery, black suffering, and so on...
...Payment must accompany all orders...
...American writers from James Fenimore Cooper through Mark Twain and Henry James, and many since have grappled with the peculiar distinction between Europe and the United States as an experience for Americans...
...the participation of allies in the American SDI program...
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...It is the etiquette which is baffling, not the spirit...
...Paul, but the book's epigraph does not specify where the quote comes from...
...It's 11 p.m., and we get down to the Rachmaninoff, the boxed "Jerry Lee Lewis: The Sun Years," and the Bang the Drum Slowly soundtrack, and Joe Mysak is assistant managing editor of the daily Bond Buyer...
...An inside look at the communist decision-making machinery by General Jan Sejna, who served at the highest levels of the Czech Communist Party before defecting to the West in 1968...
...This is not much more than a rewriting of T. S. Eliot's old statement (about Henry James) that the apotheosis of an American is to become a European...
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...Like Brecht condemning the victims of Stalin's show trials' Baldwin thunders, "It is the innocence which constitutes the crime...
...National Security: Ethics, Strategy, and Politics...
...The one major find—and it is interesting—is the literary source of "The Turn of the Screw," which turns out to be an 1855 serialization in a middlebrow New York journal which James must have read as a young boy...
...Edel nevertheless spends too much time in this new edition plying his Freud...
...In such a context his twisting of history did not matter...
...Paul...
...Time and again it brings to mind a comment of Baldwin's quoted on BBC television, to the effect that he likes to tell outrageous lies in conversation, and thus expose those who agree with him as racists...
...He tips his hand in the preface: Motown Records is a triumph and a contradiction...
...it is to be confronted with an endless cataloguing of losses, gains, skirmishes...
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...The Motown classics must be played, at every party, barbecue, day at the beach,and wedding...
...Of course there are politically pathological writers of real talent, but you would have to dig into the nastier chapters of Caine's career to find the sort of malignancy that infects The Evidence of Things Not Seen...
...By Jacquelyn K. Davis and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr._ In this study of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the authors examine the relationship between SDI and air defense in the NATO-European securityenvironment;thepotential inherent in SDI technologies for conventional defense missions...
...A must for true understanding of the war and its causes...
...It is cast in a comma-ridden neo-euphuistic syntax, rather like Henry James gone to pot...
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...Not only that, but it is a rare rites-of-passage movie nowadays that does not feature Motown...
...Rodomontade like that goes far beyond the ordinary exaggeration that characterizes polemical style...
...He slips into the moody bromides of Southern gothic fiction, writing of private unspeakable longings, the watching night which is made for desire (he is referring to miscegenation...
...With ever increasing intensity Baldwin moots a great historical scenario of unchanging white oppression of blacks, not just in America but everywhere...
...In relation to the individual the discourse has seldom got beyond the suggestion that, because of shallow national roots in history, Americans do not quite know who they are...
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...and it showed the hatred which was beginning to seep through his literary talent like ink through a blotter...
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...Baldwin has been to Atlanta before to write about racism...
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...Despite his self-imposed exile and his white racist mask, Baldwin is still an American, citizen of a country where the racist obsession is no more fixed than other ideas about society, and where the possibility of dispersing it still exists, even for those who, like Baldwin, have committed themselves for the present to this nightmare...
...which cannot be forgiven...
...No black person can afford to forget that the history of this country is genocidal from where the buffalo once roamed to where our ancestors were slaughtered (from New Orleans to New York, from Birmingham to Boston) and to the Caribbean to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Saigon...
...But the stereoscopic vision of an expatriate gives new breadth to Baldwin's accounts of his former ghetto life...
...he could not put it to use in the real world...
...But what most comes through is the courage with which James pursued his vocation in spite of the indifference of the public and the bafflement of critics...
...This has been changed to: "He was much taken with his sincerity, his seriousness—and his handsome blond countenance...
...and of course the Southern day which comes up to find a black man hanging sexless from a tree...
...Might they not have given us James's novels as James wanted us to read them...
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...The process can be seen in another book published at about the same time: The Price of The Ticket, 690 pages of Baldwin's "collected nonfiction from 1948 to 1985...
...Blacks and other ethnic groups have had the benefit of this sacrifice...
...How does a genuine literary gift degenerate into an engine for bigoted stultiloquence...
...In Where Did Our Love Go...
...44 TI-IE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1986 know is one in which nothing is fixed and in which the individual has to fight for his identity...
...But this is not really true...
...Strategic Bombers: How Many Are Enough...
...Both of these men would not have written as they did if it were not for the example of James's art...
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...The dead man mattered, the new life mattered...
...vi, 37pp...
...With an unerring instinct Baldwin caught the essence of this process without resort to stale cliches about class mobility, which are in any case beside the point...
...The product of Baldwin's labor was published last year under the title of The Evidence of Things Not Seen...
...Given Epstein's first point, it may be asked why we now have this 'May I here make a protest against the editors of the Library of America who, in their estimable reissuance of the American classics, have...
...By 1971, when Motown leaves Detroit for its current quarters on the West Coast, entrepreneur Gordy becomes an impossible monster, discarding studio musicians, breaking up WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO...
...Noting the moral support given to a black girl who is hounded out of school by racist bullies, he sneers: "Several white students, I was told, had called—not called on—Miss Counts, to beg her to stick it out...
...Oh, yes, let freedom ring...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1986 45 [The Negro] is a racial and not a personal or a human problem...
...He has mastered an enormous archive and treated his subject with exquisite literary tact...
...The greatest tragedy of Bald-win's racist ferocity is that it turns out to be unnecessary...
...commitments overseas.1986...
...At a wed-ding in Milwaukee, "The Way You Do the Things You Do" gets even the drunks barking at each other at the bar to hit the dance floor like Marines hitting the beach at Iwo, making life unsafe for saucy 17-year-olds and blushing maiden aunts who ask, "How old do you think I am...
...What happened to processed hair...
...Eleven years before, Baldwin could be excused for rejecting Ebony's claim that blacks had progressed since emancipation...
...His oppressed blacks are less and less the genuine people he knew and loved in Harlem...
...There is a common impression in academia that James rewrote his early works in his late, difficult style...
...This time he seems to have done a modicum of prowling about, had sundry inter-views, not in great depth, and engaged in what might be called a deal of brown study...
...He might have taken more heed of his own warning against hatred...
...To the United States and its people Baldwin applies a sciolistic holism that would insult the intelligence of a schoolchild—black or white...
...to think of him is to think of statistics, slums, rapes, injustices, remote violence...
...George has written in great part is a morality play about the evils of ambition...
...Cases of erroneous and biased news coverage...
...and Why doesn't Motown turn out hits like "Baby Love" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine...
...because our society has been open in ways that others have not, the identity of an American is normally subject to a type of change that rarely if ever occurs elsewhere...
...One is an acutely sensitive writer who belongs to the black community and has a sharp eye for telling detail...
...He has found what James himself, in refer-ring to Saint-Beuve, called "the seam as it were between the talent and the soul...
...decided to print James's novels as they were originally printed and not as he revised them late in life for the New York Edition of his works...
...In this study, the author briefly discusses the three basic forms of strategic mobility — prepositioning, sealift, and airlift—and thencarefullyanalyzesU.S.requirements for strategic airlift and-current and future plans to acquire sufficient capabilities to meet U.S...
...The Washington Times "Mr...
...The Tough Al, an otherwise demure Delawarean prep, once topped them all when she observed, "You know what's wrong with your record collection...
...Apparently Baldwin did not at-tend the trial, and gives no sign that he asked Wayne Williams whether or not he was guilty...
...Ilya Zemtsov ISBN 0-915979-08-X, ppbk $14.95 The New Soviet Language as an instrument of social control: fictions as realities and realities as fictions...
...and second, that, along with Walter Jackson Bates's biography of Samuel Johnson, Edel's work seems to prove that the most satisfactory modern biographies are written about good men...
...Based on a Senate Security and Terrorism Subcommittee report, this important book proposes countermeasures for the U.S...
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...Baldwin's fall into this pathology took a fascinating and tragic course...
...I hope he can bring himself to take his American chance to escape it at last...
...11:1, and the words are apt enough for both title and epigraph, though not in the sense given them by St...
...He has subtitled his book, "The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound," and he answers questions that nobody asked, to wit: Where did the Temptations go...
...The real people caught up in it—the few that he does refer to, almost in passing—sit on his pages like cardboard dummies, polemical ghosts used to adumbrate Baldwin's own wide thesis: It does not really matter whether or not Williams killed all of those kids, ,or some of them, or any of them...
...The change has to do with the negative aspects of the fight for identity which is a bond between Americans of all colors...
...Still, Edel has written the literary biography of our age...
...He does not, and perhaps cannot, answer the question of what was the Motown Sound, and why is it magic to this very day...
...In writing about, literature he solemnly presents Raintree County, of all things, as the serious "ultimate defense" of the American dream (like everyone else who uses this term pejoratively, Baldwin is vague about its meaning...
...But this entails constantly renewable commitment to achieving who and what you are, resting on faith in the proposition that nothing in our society is fixed and immutable...
...He was trying to explain the nature of faith, whereas Baldwin is perverting the quotation in order to moot a conspiracy against Wayne Williams and all other blacks by all American whites...
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...blackness and whiteness did not matter...
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...For example, in describing James's first meeting with the sculptor Hendrik Andersen, Edel wrote in the first edition, "He [James] was much taken with his ingenuity, his sincerity, his seriousness, and his hand-some blond countenance...
...This is a collective guilt, overriding any mere personal innocence...
...The dust jacket of the Library of America's edition of Faulkner reads, "Here for the first time are the novels as Faulkner wanted you to read them...
...But he has written this: •y "ambitious and non-ideological...the Guide's loudest bang will be that of the exploding egos of the 300 journalists who are rated from poor to the best...
...He also tries to come to terms with the experience of the writer in America: American writers do not have a fixed society to describe...
...That moment when The Awful Truth comes out, revealing the apparently in-excusable lacuna in my record collection...
...He made his early prose crisper, more colloquial, more highly charged...
...idealism versus realism...
...The necessity of Americans to achieve an identity is a historical and present personal fact and this is the connection between you and me...
...Conversation is one thing...
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...collective security and the balance of power...
...None, so far as I know, has noticed that several lines of The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock were almost directly lifted from James's tale "In the Cage,'" or that the eerie lines about the formal garden in Burnt Norton derive from "The Turn of the Screw...
...There aren't enough Negroes...
...There are slight changes in emphasis in this new edition which are not corroborated by anything new Edel has dug up...
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...It took two Americans, Pound and Eliot, to put some fiber back into it...
...vacuously about subjugation, he equates it at one point with liquor laws, and thinks (I use the word loosely) that "crime in the streets" is seen by all white Americans as purely a "black" phenomenon...
...Naively he attacks Uncle Tom's Cabin as bad literature, commenting sniffily on the "protest novel" as a mere ritual while quite missing the great virtue of this one, which was the amazing power and success of its stereotypes as agitprop...
...This was not like the case of the moorish slave Terence, who by learning and writing perfect Latin became a famous playwright...
...therefore Williams cannot be guilty...
...With these words, writ-ten early in 1951, Baldwin is ironically speaking through the mask of a (collective) white man...
...But in 1959 he had been years and an ocean away from Harlem, he had seen more of the world, and, moreover, had written eloquently about the destructive power of hatred, and the truth that some things are stronger and more important than color prejudice...
...This struggle can be and often is the occasion for ruthless competition between individuals—and for a flight into some non-national collective...
...He did nothing of the sort...
...And he might still take note of these lines from William Blake's great prophetic poem Jerusalem: It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend...
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...Actually Baldwin shows very little THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1986 43 detailed interest in the case...
...It so happened that Williams was black...
...HERO Books 8316 Arlington Blvd...
...He appears to believe that racist cruelty is special to black victims in America, because blacks were once slaves...
...In this setting he begins to explore his national identity, writing about the concerns which tie him to other Americans in the expatriate community: From the vantage point of Europe [the American] discovers his own country...
...Strategic Ai rlift: Requ irements and Capabilities...
...He asserts that the prosecution case has a great hole in it, but since he gives no comprehensive ac-count of that case, and almost none at all of the defense, it is impossible to gauge what he says with any precision...
...Ray S. Cline and Yonah Alexander ISBN 0-915979-19-5, ppbk $12.95...
...The myth of Motown is that it is the eternal family, where singers and executives, clerks and bass players, shared ideas and energy all for the common good...
...He looks back into France, and realizes that "what can happen to an American Negro writer in Europe simply illustrates . . . what can happen to any American writer there...
...xiv, 27pp...
...It would not rate notice in a respectable publication if it did notcome from a serious writer of good reputation, a man Who is praised as a litterateur both in the United States and abroad...
...Arms Control Policy...
...ByJan Sejna and Joseph D. Douglass, Jr...
...and the passions which can be unleashed on a Southern road at night, where everything seems so sensual, so languid, and so private...
...The port from which I set out was, I think, that of the essential loneliness of my life—and it seems to be the port also, in sooth, to which my course again finally directs itself," James wrote to a friend at the end of his life...
...to believe that they did was to acquiesce in one's own destruction...
...and they devote considerable attention to the communist short- and long-term planning process, the Operation Plan, the system of nomenklotura, and the development of Party cadres...
...Baldwin's melacentric bigotry grows worse as the essays succeed each other, whether he is writing in America or France...
...the closed society versus the open society...
...The five essays in this layman's primer attempttobroodenpubiicunderstanding of the relationship between ethics and a wide range of strategic and political issues on the international scene...
...Baldwin's sour response is to brush these points aside with the assertion that the very existence of Ebony "gave the lie to this effort to make the best of a bad bargain...
...To a remarkable degree, from the late fifties to the mid-sixties, that myth rang true...
...The brief in support of this implied proposition is almost unreadable...
...In 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia, Leopold and Loeb were reincarnated, doubled, and redoubled in the person of one Wayne Bertram Williams...
...1986...
...detente and Soviet expansionism...
Vol. 19 • May 1986 • No. 5
