Word: robeson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London Observer. In 1930, when Waugh was busy with the social-literary set, he wrote: "After dinner I went to the Savoy Theater and said: 'I am Evelyn Waugh. Please give me a seat.' So they did. I saw the last two acts of Paul Robeson's Othello. Hopeless production but I like his great black booby face." Waugh also noted disapprovingly that Poet Edith Sitwell and her family lived on terms of "feudal familiarity" with their servants. "Come on, one of you's got to go," said the footman, trying to persuade Edith...
...Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique of working class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American politics; to a rejection of the entire American culture, expect for the pseudo-folk or transcendental-poetic, No Bogart movies for the Isaacsons, only Paul Robeson at Peekskill or Barbirolli's Philharmonic at the Lewiston Stadium...
...condone actions like the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia or give so facilely conspiratorial an explanation for the reports of Soviet oppression of Jews and dissidents. But, actually, Angela is but the last in a series of black intellectuals to become prominently identified with the C.P. Like DuBois, Wright, and Robeson before her, she seems to have been led by some inner light to the conviction that the C.P. is the most effective vehicle to achieve her purposes in the arena of the international socialist struggle, and, having made that decision, is willing to keep to herself any disagreements...
...week, turned on a wiretap; Boudin won the Coplon appeal because authorities had eavesdropped on lawyer-client conversations.) Filling the gap in his practice, he began to make a name for himself in a series of passport cases: he diligently represented such noted left-wingers as Corliss Lamont, Paul Robeson and Rockwell Kent in proceedings that finally resulted in a 1958 Supreme Court decision ending State Department restrictions on international travel by leftists. All told, Boudin has argued before the Supreme Court 15 or 20 times (the late Justice John Harlan once listed him among the ten ablest lawyers...
...third quarter, after the Harvard offense had been sputtering all day, Yovicsin and the offensive coaches sent all the offensive black players in after a kickoff. Rod Foster was at quarterback. Bill Craven at flanker, Dave Robeson at tightend, and I was at fullback. Immediately we began to drive down the field. Foster was pinpointing passes to Craven and Robeson, running on his own when necessary, and handing off the ball to me in tight yardage situations...