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Twentieth-century lion 上世纪的名流 My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race and Defiance. ByHarry Belafonte; 《我的歌：追忆艺术，种族与反抗》哈利贝拉方特著。 IT ALL began with a set of Venetian blinds. In1946 a couple in a Manhattan apartment building asked their janitor, a biracial Jamaican NewYorker newly returned from naval service in the second world war, to install a set in their flat.The task completed, they gave him two theatre tickets as payment. The janitor, having nomoney for the dinner that a proper date would have included, went on his own to see Homeis the Hunter, a play about black servicemen returning to America after the war. He wasenraptured. 这一切要从一套百叶窗帘说起。故事发生在1946年的曼哈顿，有对夫妇想在家里安装一套百叶窗帘，于是便叫来一位公寓清洁工，作为报酬，事后给了他两张戏票。想来，邀人看戏起码得请吃个饭，可无奈囊中羞涩，这清洁工就自个儿去美国黑人剧院看了场《家是猎人》。这出戏讲述了一位美国黑人士兵战后返乡的事，看着看着这哥们就陶醉了。 The tenants, Clarice Taylor and Maxwell Glanville, performed in the play, which was puton by the American Negro Theatre . The janitor was, of course, Harry Belafonte. 剧中表演者正是那对夫妇，克莱斯泰勒与麦斯威尔格兰维尔;而那清洁工呢，自然就是哈利贝拉方特;说来，那时二战刚刚终了，结束海军服役后，这个有着牙买加血统的美籍混血回到纽约，在一幢公寓里做起了清洁工。 | 
