Harper's Magazine, Volume 236Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1968 - American literature |
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... America is a progressive country , but American speech is highly conservative . One cannot imagine its being very different a century -or even two centuries - from now . For " Finch " Say " Bird " The question of the vocabulary of the ...
... America is a progressive country , but American speech is highly conservative . One cannot imagine its being very different a century -or even two centuries - from now . For " Finch " Say " Bird " The question of the vocabulary of the ...
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... American life , the poet's beast slink- ing to the marketplace . The country had always been wild . It had always been harsh and hard , it had always had a fever - when life in one American town grew insupportable , one could travel ...
... American life , the poet's beast slink- ing to the marketplace . The country had always been wild . It had always been harsh and hard , it had always had a fever - when life in one American town grew insupportable , one could travel ...
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... American Negroes into their climb from passivity to mili- tancy . He was a scholar of some im- portance , both as sociologist of urban Negro life and historian of Black Re- construction . He kept hammering away at the thick hide of American ...
... American Negroes into their climb from passivity to mili- tancy . He was a scholar of some im- portance , both as sociologist of urban Negro life and historian of Black Re- construction . He kept hammering away at the thick hide of American ...
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