Power and Love; When Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Met Hazel Scott, Sparks Flew

The Washington Post | January 17, 1993| | Copyright

He challenged segregationists, championed civil rights and fought the war on poverty as the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. But along the way, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. made enemies and mistakes, and in 1967 his colleagues voted to exclude him from the 90th Congress, charging such abuses as using taxpayers' money for personal travel and having his estranged third wife, Yvette, on the congressional payroll for a no-show job. Nevertheless, Powell's constituents overwhelmingly reelected him and he was reseated when the 91st Congress convened - but as a freshman, stripped of ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Eliot the Enigma: An Observation of the Development of T. S. Eliot's Thought and Poetry
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review ; The significance of T. S. Eliot's conversion to Christianity in its Anglican form in 1927...gave him a principle of order 'outside the self.'"2 Eliot's conversion, however, did not imply that his own critical...
George Eliot - a writer of wrongs; THE NUNEATON-BORN NOVELIST WHO MADE IT TO THE TOP IN A MALE-DOMINATED VICTORIAN SOCIETY LIVED A WAYWARD LIFE.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) ; ...a fragile commodity and Eliot examines the ways and means...TV producer Louis Marks. ELIOT'S intelligence in her novels is so strong that you can't help but feel that you...who plays Daniel Deronda. ELIOT was quite a social activist...
Eliot's echo rhetoric.(T. S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yeats Eliot Review ; ...recognition, to invite Eliot into the conversation...discussing the defects of T.S. Eliot's poetry. What do you...unclear. In 1925, Pound's letter to a friend notes that Eliot don't see either Yeats or Hardy...
Eliot shadows: autography and style in the hollow men.(T. S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yeats Eliot Review ; ...than any currently available Eliot document. Likely against Eliot's wishes, Hale donated them to...1973 biography, for example, T. S. Matthews imagines Hale's response to Eliot's first marriage in terms befitting...
Eliot, Frazer, and the myhtology of modernism. (influence of anthropologist James Frazer on poet T.S. Eliot)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review ; Back in the '50s, T. S. Eliot took the wind out of Eliot studies...critical tendency has been to see Eliot's invocation of James Frazer and Jessie...Eliot studies. Her findings about Eliot's assimilation of Frazer in particular...
George Eliot and the production of consumers
Magazine article from: Novel ; ...that [Felix Holt] isn't quite ready for publication...be furnished to M.P.s" (Eliot, Letters 8: 374). The...anthologies shape the way Eliot's work is perceived even...Anthologies redefine the genre of Eliot's oeuvre and the gender of...
Eliot, Borges, tradition, and irony.(T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Symposium ; ...annihilation, this short note suggests one of Borges's recurrent critical concerns, namely the dynamics...literary tradition. In this respect, Borges's ideas seem to coincide with T. S. Eliot's as articulated in his well-known essays...
Eliot's New Life.
Magazine article from: National Review ; ...ACCOUNTING for Charles Baudelaire's "constant vituperations of the female," T. S. Eliot once observed that the French poet...sympathetic and elaborate analysis of T. S. Eliot's symbolization of the feminine...
Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review ; ...but a governing motto for his understanding of T. S. Eliot's work. The motto is enabling, but it may be...into the Shadow." Even after reading Schuchard's book I don't know what Eliot's dark angel was or how it was transcended in "Ash...
T.S. Eliot: a life.
Magazine article from: National Review ; ...been published, and an edition of Eliot's letters have been promised for many...It covers the first 18 years of Eliot's life in 15 pages and describes the...needs to be said about the young Eliot's financial difficulties (what was...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Power and Love; When Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Met ..."