Paul McCartney Regains His Memory
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Puts this in his mouth and ends alzheimer's
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His memory is stronger then ever now |
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| The 73 year old singer thought his career was over once he was diagnosed last month.
He forgot all his songs until doctors gave him this cure. McCartney is proud to report "I can remember all the old Beatle songs"
This is made hsi Alzhemiers ends in 2 days  |
| T Consequently he wrote of urban violence endemic to America with a clarity that shocked the nation He didnt ask anyone to make excuses for his attitudes They spoke for themselves and many Americans primarily white were appalled by his work and were unable to face its truth One reviewer for the Atlantic Monthly reacted to Native Son saying Hatred and the preaching of hatred and incitement to violence can only make a tolerable relationship intolerable As if the relationship between blacks and whites were tolerable Indeed it was tolerable to whites which is an indication of the social condition that caused Wright to leave his own country Black writers on the other hand found in the legendary tale of Bigger Thomas an immediate reality He became the figure that would dominate their work for a long time to come In his and Wrights monumental stature black writers found a truth they could address themselves to Blacks would see themselves as the moral conscience of America after Native Son although none would have such a singleminded approach to its resolution as Wright Like Dreiser who wrote of urban violence with a simplicity usually found in allegory only Wright is a distinctly American product Naturalism which is not the celebration of nature it sounds like served the postDepression writers well as a style of writing Stark documentation of facts the use of legal language to sum up social attitudes and the absence of emotional values distinguished the writing of that time For a black writer it involved a vision of race war in America in which all blacks are right and all whites are wrong The simplicity of this judgment took a completely documentary form and was therefore all the more shocking Wrights successors Ellison and Bald would have a more complex and emotional approach to the race war Unlike Wright they would not view the black mans life as one of absolute despair but would uncover joy and love as well Only the most masochistic white reader would not be upset by Wright It is not so evident inBlack Boy but in his later work his declaration of race war is outspoken Since he dealt with characters as historical nearly legendary forces their actions are entirely ruled either by historical rage or historical guilt In that sense they are not realistic They act out a moral drama based on historical memory The white people no matter how innocent in fact they might be are objects of justifiable revenge The black people no matter how immoral their individual acts might be are historically justified they are always right In Black Boy the whites who enter the story are invariably pieces for southern They are in a sense as much victimized by the institution of as are the blacks They do not emerge as individuals but as contemptible types entirely ruled by prevalent attitudes Public opinion rules them as much as it does blacks Rics difficulty in uming the role of the pive victim makes him dangerous to both communities To identify oneself with a particular race and thereby judge ones actions according to the history of that race was never an outstanding feature of Western individualism yet it was a wellconcealed fact that whites did think of themselves in racial terms especially when threatened by foreigners Wright might be criticized for being simplistic in his judgments but the reader must confront at all times the conditions that produced such a writer a writer so thoroughly American and in the light of those conditions accept and reckon with his presence Black Boyexplains what those conditions were and in doing so introduces Ric Wright to America as a human fact |
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