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Writers openly admit that the Negro is easier to write than the white man ; but they obviously mean by this, not a Negro personality, but a Negro type. | write | {
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Writers openly admit that the Negro is easier to write than the white man ; but they obviously mean by this, not a Negro personality, but a Negro type. | mean | {
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Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; and the success of such an endeavor is, as suggested above, glaringly rare. | Presenting | {
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Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; and the success of such an endeavor is, as suggested above, glaringly rare. | seem | {
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Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; and the success of such an endeavor is, as suggested above, glaringly rare. | is | {
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Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; and the success of such an endeavor is, as suggested above, glaringly rare. | tackle | {
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Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; and the success of such an endeavor is, as suggested above, glaringly rare. | is | {
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Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; and the success of such an endeavor is, as suggested above, glaringly rare. | suggested | {
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Just as the Negro situation points up the gradual and abrupt changes affecting Southern life, it also points up the non-representation of urbanism in Southern literature. | points up | {
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Just as the Negro situation points up the gradual and abrupt changes affecting Southern life, it also points up the non-representation of urbanism in Southern literature. | affecting | {
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The book concerned with the Negro 's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; recently only Keith Wheeler 's novel, Peaceable Lane, has openly faced the problem. | concerned | {
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The book concerned with the Negro 's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; recently only Keith Wheeler 's novel, Peaceable Lane, has openly faced the problem. | is | {
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The book concerned with the Negro 's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; recently only Keith Wheeler 's novel, Peaceable Lane, has openly faced the problem. | faced | {
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All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life. | admit | {
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All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life. | is | {
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All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life. | sigh | {
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Many earlier writers, mourning the demise of the old order, tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `` gracious Old South '' imagery, creating such lasting impressions as Margaret Mitchell 's `` Tara '' plantation. | mourning | {
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Many earlier writers, mourning the demise of the old order, tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `` gracious Old South '' imagery, creating such lasting impressions as Margaret Mitchell 's `` Tara '' plantation. | tended | {
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Many earlier writers, mourning the demise of the old order, tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `` gracious Old South '' imagery, creating such lasting impressions as Margaret Mitchell 's `` Tara '' plantation. | romanticize | {
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Many earlier writers, mourning the demise of the old order, tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `` gracious Old South '' imagery, creating such lasting impressions as Margaret Mitchell 's `` Tara '' plantation. | exaggerate | {
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Many earlier writers, mourning the demise of the old order, tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `` gracious Old South '' imagery, creating such lasting impressions as Margaret Mitchell 's `` Tara '' plantation. | creating | {
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Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century. | are | {
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Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century. | keep | {
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Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century. | insist | {
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Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century. | drawing out | {
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Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century. | prolonging | {
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Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century. | deserves | {
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Perhaps these writers have been too deeply moved by this romanticizing ; but they can hardly deny that, exaggerated or not, the old panorama is dead. | moved | {
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Perhaps these writers have been too deeply moved by this romanticizing ; but they can hardly deny that, exaggerated or not, the old panorama is dead. | romanticizing | {
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Perhaps these writers have been too deeply moved by this romanticizing ; but they can hardly deny that, exaggerated or not, the old panorama is dead. | deny | {
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Perhaps these writers have been too deeply moved by this romanticizing ; but they can hardly deny that, exaggerated or not, the old panorama is dead. | is | {
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As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ) : `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''. | says | {
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As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ) : `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''. | rest | {
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As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ) : `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''. | hope | {
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Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers ' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees : `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence [ of urbanization ] presented to his senses. | bemoans | {
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Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers ' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees : `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence [ of urbanization ] presented to his senses. | is | {
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Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers ' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees : `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence [ of urbanization ] presented to his senses. | assimilated | {
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Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers ' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees : `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence [ of urbanization ] presented to his senses. | is | {
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Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers ' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees : `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence [ of urbanization ] presented to his senses. | presented | {
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It bewilders and befuddles him. | bewilders | {
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It bewilders and befuddles him. | befuddles | {
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He is too deeply steeped in William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren. | steeped | {
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The fumes of progress are in his nose and the bright steel of industry towers before his eyes, but his heart is away in Yoknapatawpha County with razorback hogs and night riders. | are | {
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The fumes of progress are in his nose and the bright steel of industry towers before his eyes, but his heart is away in Yoknapatawpha County with razorback hogs and night riders. | towers | {
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On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''. | wants | {
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On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''. | see | {
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Obviously, such a Northern tourist 's purpose is somewhat akin to a child 's experience with Disneyland : he wants to see a world of make-believe. | is | {
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Obviously, such a Northern tourist 's purpose is somewhat akin to a child 's experience with Disneyland : he wants to see a world of make-believe. | wants | {
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Obviously, such a Northern tourist 's purpose is somewhat akin to a child 's experience with Disneyland : he wants to see a world of make-believe. | see | {
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In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region 's progress. | is | {
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In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region 's progress. | done | {
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In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region 's progress. | reflect | {
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In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region 's progress. | promote | {
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Willard Thorp, in his new book American Writing in the Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems : | observes | {
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Willard Thorp, in his new book American Writing in the Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems : | seems | {
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`` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched. | are | {
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`` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched. | touched | {
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No southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York. | done | {
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No southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York. | did | {
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No southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York. | did | {
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There are almost no fictional treatments of the industrialized south ''. | are | {
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Not a single Southern author, major or minor, has made the urban problems of an urban South his primary source material. | made | {
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Faulkner, for one, appears to be safe from the accusing fingers of all assailants in this regard. | appears | {
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Faulkner, for one, appears to be safe from the accusing fingers of all assailants in this regard. | be | {
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Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done. | culminates | {
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Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done. | done | {
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He has made it his, and his it remains, irrevocably. | made | {
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He has made it his, and his it remains, irrevocably. | remains | {
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He treats it with a mythological, universal application. | treats | {
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As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families. | boast | {
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As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families. | is | {
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As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families. | show | {
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As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families. | changing | {
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As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families. | proven | {
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Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil. | looking to | {
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Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil. | erased | {
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Yet his concern even here is with a slowly changing socio-economic order in general, and he never deals with such specific aspects of this change as the urban and industrial impact. | is | {
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Yet his concern even here is with a slowly changing socio-economic order in general, and he never deals with such specific aspects of this change as the urban and industrial impact. | deals | {
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Faulkner traces, in his vast and overpowering saga of Yoknapatawpha County, the gradual changes which seep into the South, building layer upon layer of minute, subtle innovation which eventually tend largely to hide the Old Way. | traces | {
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Faulkner traces, in his vast and overpowering saga of Yoknapatawpha County, the gradual changes which seep into the South, building layer upon layer of minute, subtle innovation which eventually tend largely to hide the Old Way. | seep | {
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Faulkner traces, in his vast and overpowering saga of Yoknapatawpha County, the gradual changes which seep into the South, building layer upon layer of minute, subtle innovation which eventually tend largely to hide the Old Way. | tend | {
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Faulkner traces, in his vast and overpowering saga of Yoknapatawpha County, the gradual changes which seep into the South, building layer upon layer of minute, subtle innovation which eventually tend largely to hide the Old Way. | hide | {
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Thus Faulkner reminds us, and wisely, that the `` new '' South has gradually evolved out of the Old South, and consequently its agrarian roots persist. | reminds | {
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Thus Faulkner reminds us, and wisely, that the `` new '' South has gradually evolved out of the Old South, and consequently its agrarian roots persist. | evolved | {
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Thus Faulkner reminds us, and wisely, that the `` new '' South has gradually evolved out of the Old South, and consequently its agrarian roots persist. | persist | {
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Yet he presents a realm of source material which may well serve other writers if not himself : the problems with which a New South must grapple in groping through a blind adolescence into the maturity of urbanization. | presents | {
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Yet he presents a realm of source material which may well serve other writers if not himself : the problems with which a New South must grapple in groping through a blind adolescence into the maturity of urbanization. | serve | {
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Yet he presents a realm of source material which may well serve other writers if not himself : the problems with which a New South must grapple in groping through a blind adolescence into the maturity of urbanization. | grapple | {
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Yet he presents a realm of source material which may well serve other writers if not himself : the problems with which a New South must grapple in groping through a blind adolescence into the maturity of urbanization. | groping | {
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With new mechanization the modern farmer must perform the work of six men : a machine stands between the agrarian and his soil. | perform | {
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With new mechanization the modern farmer must perform the work of six men : a machine stands between the agrarian and his soil. | stands | {
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The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension : the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas. | desert | {
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The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension : the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas. | readjust | {
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Old, tired, trembling the woman came to the cannery. | came | {
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She had, she said, heard that the plant was closing. | said | {
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She had, she said, heard that the plant was closing. | heard | {
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