Articles with keyword "twentieth century"
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Poetry Speaks
“Voice registers the weird sexiness of reading poetry, the illusion it enables of a private tryst between author and reader.” So says Lesley Wheeler, an English professor at Washington and Lee Univers
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Mon Dieu!
“The issue of keeping the French language alive in Louisiana,” says Dana Kress, a professor at Centenary College in Shreveport, “is always accompanied with great wailing, much pulling of hair, and fev
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World Beaters
In the early days of basketball, the girls from Fort Shaw Indian School took on all comers.
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Why Paris?
Two neighborhoods—Montmartre and Montparnasse—helped shape Picasso and a generation of innovators.
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Mark Twain's Latest Autobiography
One hundred years after his death on April 21, 1910, Mark Twain is having one of the busiest years of his afterlife.