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(Sine* April 13)Total precipitationI James Baldwin, novelist, and essayist, will lecture on the campusWednesday • and Thursday, . under the auspices of the . English depart*merit. v — ;Mr. H. Edward Clark, professor of Eriglisjh, says of Mr. Baldwinthat of the modern American noVv elists, /he is second only to Hein-ingway and Faulkner. '■At 3L pjm. op Wednesd^, Mr. Baldwin will hold a discussion, ;•* I 5 ' *_ Jr i _ iopen to all students and faeulfe- in j the lounge of Atwood ?Hall| I Ajt j 3:15 p.mJ he will conduct a nubile lecture tnGunnison Chapel on’‘ The Opportunities of the AmericanNovelist J* On Thursday he Will talk to several English classes. *• •• 4- ■' ' ' • ■ ' ' ' - ■• y - ■ ■ * - - . . ■ -. Frequent Contributory ,- * * * - *~ - . . . *c*Mr; Baldwin, - oiie. of America's Ilt; * - * t Vleading younger writers, is the author of the novels/6* Tell It on the/ - v 1 w * - c r »Mountain, set in/Harlem and' the South, and Giovanni’s Room, which takes piace in Erance. A third nov el; Another Country, will ^appearthis spring.; Hie naspublished a book of es%■ s says dealing with the Negro lift, i; America, entitled Notes of a NativeSon, and will publish another lt;Collection soon. He! is. a. frequent contributor to magazines here , and ■ abroad, including Atlantic, Harp* er*s, New York Times . Magazine,I y % M * * *The JEtep or fcsr, -. Bartisan. -Review, -and Encounter. * IIf. Y. Times Excerpt -' ' ‘ ; .• ■ • ' . • . /in an article in the March 12New York; Timet Magazine, Mr.Baldwin wrote of a -contemporaryAmerican problem“Northernersproffer their indignation about theSouth as a kind of badge, as proof : of good intentions | they never sus.- } pect’that they thus increase^ in the | heart of the. Negro they address, a 1 kind of helpldfcs Win and rage— Pand pity Further oh, he. -Wrote: '*“Negroes know how little' most , white people are prepared to iin- lt;plement their words with deeds, ) how littlek wheil the chips are \ down, they are prepared! to risk, jArid this !.long history -pf moral ' evasion hlas had an unhealthy efr i feet on ithe total life of : tlm couritry j and has eroded: whatever Respect j ] Negroes may. have had . [for White ! people.’] . | . ' jSfr. Baldwin, born in Harlerii iii j 1924, lived for a number of years In io Paris, arid how makes his home in *: Greenwich Tillage. # ‘
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Canton Hill News
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Thu, Apr 20, 1961
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