Guardian, Jan 7, 1972. p.8

Michael Billington article about three great acting performances during the year, in reference to Olivier’s Shylock quotes JB:

‘…the way he [Olivier] highlights the social and racial outsider’s reversion to role-playing. As JB says in ‘Notes of a Native Son’, a Negro “learns to gauge precisely what reaction the alien person facing him desires and he produces it with disarming artlessness.”