Tiger Woods

[Harrold Wilson Gray]

On Sep 2, 2005, at 7:36 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> Read "Sammy," heard lots about "Waterfront," not familiar with
> "Harder" at all. Saw twice the the L.A. production of the Workshop's
> "Big-Time Buck White," featuring local actors. The S.F. production had
> Mohammed Ali starring in the title role.

-Wilson

> Budd [sic] Schulberg ran the Watts Writers Workshop.  He wrote _On the
> Waterfront_ , _What Makes Sammy Run_, and the underrated _The Harder
> They Fall_, possibly America's finest prizefighting novel.
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> JL
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> Harrold Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On Sep 1, 2005, at 10:55 PM, sagehen wrote:
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>> Wilson Gray writes:
>>> I've just heard one of our loocal newsreaders describe Tiger Woods as
>>> "looking _tan_." It reminded me of the time that a black student
>>> walked barefooted into the student center at Washintoon U. in St,
>>> Louis, moving a white student to quote, "Blessings on thee, little
>>> man! / Barefoot boy with CHEEK!" stopping himself before finishing
>>> the
>>> line with "... of tan!"
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>> Might also have been thinking of /Barefoot Boy with Cheek/, a humorous
>> book
>> by Max Shulman that came out in the '40s. [Was Barefoot Boy one of
>> Jas
>> Whitcomb Riley's? I remember having to memorize it in grade school,
>> but
>> can't now call up any more lines.]
>> A. Murie
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> Yeah, I remember that book. It spawned a television series that, in
> turn, spawned Gilligan's Island. Budd Shulman ran the Watts Writers
> Workshop. I'm sure that the poem is one of Riley's. Once upon a time,
> it was something that everybody knew. Anyhow, i'm pretty sure that it
> was what's now known as being "P.C."- this was in the 'Fifties - that
> stopped the speaker in his metaphorical tracks. He didn't want to bring
> up the question of color to a person of color.
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> -Wilson Gray
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