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DIONNE WARWICK: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Scepter). To some ears, Dionne is too "bleached," or white-sounding, to be a soul singer; but the best of her exceptional ways with a note are strictly soul-derived. Though Do You Know the Way to San Jose? is a sleekly "white", and...
Too Familiar. Too often, however, the contributors to this book are simply blinded by their own racism. The fact that Styron is a Virginia-born white seems to discredit him instantly in the eyes of more than one essayist. Rather typically, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton (Black Power) peevishly sees Styron...
Rats in the Basement. No amount of empathy from outside can give a singer the realism and believability that constitute soul. He has to have "been down the line," as Negroes say, and "paid his dues" in life. Aretha, in spite of her youth, has paid heavily. "I might be...
More typical perhaps is a senior professor who says he has avoided serving on committees as much as possible during his career here, but every now and then agrees to be on one, considering it a sort of dues for being on the Harvard Faculty.
Whatever the manners or modes employed, all conciliators agree that face-saving is the top consideration in their trade. For one thing, leaders of militant groups or nations find it difficult to sell compromises to their constituents without some semblance of victory. During the recent Memphis sanitation workers' strike...