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...Caribbean Black Power movement can be traced to the writings of Haiti's Jean Price Mars in the 1920s. Long before Senegal's Poet-President Léopold Senghor had defined his concept of négritude, Price Mars was writing of the black man's need to accept his African heritage and to use it as a cultural resource, a theme echoed today by Martinique-born Poet-Dramatist Aime Cesaire. Accordingly, many of the Caribbean's contemporary radicals, like their counterparts in the U.S., talk about a spiritual return to Africa. Says Jamaica...
Comes the revelation. For the first time since the 1920s, Russia has produced a sociological study on sexual habits and deportment. Entitled "Youth and Marriage," the report was researched by two Leningrad social scientists, A.G. Kharchev and S.I. Golod, who may well become the Communist Kinseys. From their project emerges a plea for a more rational and open treatment of sex in Soviet society...
Died. Robert Maclver, 88, sociologist and author, onetime president (1956-61) of Manhattan's New School for Social Research; in Manhattan. Maclver rose to fame in the 1920s as a humanist in an age of behaviorists. In his numerous books analyzing U.S. democracy (The Ramparts We Guard, Leviathan and the People, Power Transformed), he insisted that in sociology the search for meaning should be paramount...
...when he was in his 20s, an Armenian named Dikran Kouyoumjian created a string of literary entertainments about the Bright Young People of London's Mayfair. No one was better than he at writing about "silly young Lords, who drink champagne in the morning, and marvelous new 1920s women, who swear (ever so slightly) and are bored with silly young Lords." His greatest confection was Iris March (in The Green Hat), a fell lady who seductively drops her keepsake emerald on the floor in Chapter 1, but finally dies, for love and honor, in a flaming yellow Hispano-Suiza...
After the Civil War came a new wave of Negro poets that included Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote in the Negro folk dialect of the rural South as well as standard English. The 1920s produced the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, when Negro poetry began to turn from the classic Eng lish lyric verse of Countee Cullen to the rhythmic, blues-style poetry of Langston Hughes. Later, came Pulitzer Prize-winning Gwendolyn Brooks, Jazz Poet Ted Joans and Margaret Walker, whom some call the mother of the black poets of the '60s. These new poets began to look...