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Reader Phillips is correct-but only up to a point. The coinage was Grant's. The general first used the line in a wartime letter written from Spottsylvania on May 11, 1864: "I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer...
...getting shot in Northern Ireland or that the shelling of Phnom-Penh couldn't resume. But in organized military operations, nothing was happening." The peace was brief. Last week government forces overran three insurgent positions south of Phnom-Penh, heavy air and artillery attacks took place near the Plain of Reeds in South Viet Nam, and thousands of soldiers mutinied in Ethiopia (see THE WORLD...
...cautioned that the kind of interpretive journalism he lauds is "tricky business," and that one can make "all sorts of errors and misinterpretations." Analysis might undermine the people's credence in newspaper accounts or plain backfire, he said...
...that the characters were not clearly white or black. Would Hughes make them definitely Negro? The re-editing did not take long. Hughes simply inserted "black" in front of the word "man" and "Brown skin" in front of the girl's name and the story was accepted. "Just a plain story about human beings," as Hughes called it, was not acceptable from a black writer. But you have to accept Harlem in the Evening on Hughes's terms, as a story about human beings, in a world he knew best: Harlem in the early 1940s. There is no overbearing emphasis...
Harlem in the Evening is not a "plain story." The production is extremely complex, with little character development and less plot to hold it together. Gene Bone and Howard Fenton, both of whom worked with Hughes before his death, composed and conceived Harlem in the Evening from Hughes's poems, lyrics and drama as a cross-section of life in Harlem. In many ways the play is like Hughes's long poem about Harlem, Montage of a Dream Deferred, from which some of the script was taken. It has the same sudden shifts in pace, mixing quick jazz tempos with...