Word: douglass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cato Douglass, the novel's slow-burning narrator, has suffered racial prejudice, the sweetened indignities of tokenism and the usual wear and tear of encroaching middle age. He is a writer whose resume has a familiar ring: World War II combat veteran, college on the G.I. Bill, Greenwich Village, Paris, Spain, Bread Loaf and finally a niche in a university English department. (Williams himself is a professor of English at Rutgers University...
...Douglass's reaction: "I suppose that had it not been for the imminent birth of our child, I would have felt a keener jealousy, a deeper bitterness...
Gifted with imagination and strong ambition, Douglass does not do badly. Agents occasionally treat him as a hot property, publishers are reasonable, and his work is praised as often as it is patronized. He has three fine sons and a loving wife. In contrast, Douglass's old friend and fellow writer Paul Cummings (formerly Kaminsky) is a big success and a splashy suicide. The suggestion is that denying one's heritage, "to drink with another crowd," invites catastrophe. Still, out of this conflict, Cummings writes a novel that wins a National Book Award...
...slap on the wrist, and here Ike is, doin' it to himself. " On black college students at the affirmative-action gate: "I see them a few years down the line, having smacked the wall, backing away, murmuring, 'I be goin' to figure this out.' " Douglass's own conclusions are black and white, them against us. He carries a revolver, which he once used to drive off attackers while on a civil rights assignment in the South. He nearly strangles a cab driver who refused to stop...
...Republicans are a much more decentralized party." H. Douglass Price, professor of Government, explains, adding, "their activists tend to be more conservative, happy with...