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The Amen Corner by James Baldwin

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The Amen Corner Information
290 words, approx. 1 pages
The Amen Corner is a three-act play by James Baldwin.It was Baldwin's first attempt at theater following Go Tell It on the Mountain. It was first published in 1954, and inspired a short-lived 1983 Broadway musical adaptation of the same...


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Amen to that.(the amen corner)(Cover Story)
02/01/2006: 925 words, approx. 3 pages
While I'm writing this column just before the close of 2005, it will be published halfway between two of Christendom's most famous holidays--Christmas and Easter--at about the time that the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention is held in Dallas, Texas. It's a fitting...
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No mercy at Amen Corner
04/08/1995: 643 words, approx. 2 pages
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It may have been just about the moment Brad Faxon was agonizing about his tee shot on the 12th hole that Herbert Warren Wind was detailing how he had dubbed that dangerous area -- where the 11th green, 12th hole and...
 


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Critical Essay by Howard Taubman
220 words, approx. 1 pages
The fact that one has to wait until the final minutes of "The Amen Corner" for Sister Margaret to come truly alive is a clue to the shortcomings of Mr. Baldwin's early work. The structure of the play is elementary. The characterization is halting, and points are made obviously and repetitively. Even in the much later "Blues for Mister Charlie," Mr. Baldwin had not mastered the dramatic form. "The Amen Corner," though it is not guilty of excesses of rhetoric, ...


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The Amen Corner by James Baldwin

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