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... later to voice . The intellectual and spiritual climate of Long Island in many ways paralleled that of Boston , when the Tran- scendental movement began . Hicks , for example , advo- cated an individualist religion where each member had ...
... later to voice . The intellectual and spiritual climate of Long Island in many ways paralleled that of Boston , when the Tran- scendental movement began . Hicks , for example , advo- cated an individualist religion where each member had ...
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... later reluctant to talk about his beginnings and is said to have despised his relatives . At fifteen he left home and spent two years as a printer's devil . There followed a year at the Kentucky Mili- tary Institute , the only schooling ...
... later reluctant to talk about his beginnings and is said to have despised his relatives . At fifteen he left home and spent two years as a printer's devil . There followed a year at the Kentucky Mili- tary Institute , the only schooling ...
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... later her first play , A Raisin in the Sun , opened on Broadway . Two months later she became the youngest American playwright , the fifth woman , and the only black writer ever to win the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for the ...
... later her first play , A Raisin in the Sun , opened on Broadway . Two months later she became the youngest American playwright , the fifth woman , and the only black writer ever to win the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for the ...
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