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| U.S. author, nicknamed "Papa," known for his simple, clear style |
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| U.S. author of The Great Gatsby; often wrote about the very rich |
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| U.S. author known for his stream of consciousness technique |
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| U.S. author of The Grapes of Wrath |
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| African-American cultural flowering in 1920s New York City |
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| Mix of mysticism, belief in former lives, and personal fulfillment |
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| Philosophy that individuals create themselves by the choices they make |
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| American blacks who adopted the Islamic faith |
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| Authors of the 1920s who wrote about disillusioned and rootless characters |
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| Irish author who revolutionized modern fiction |
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| Flow of a character's thoughts and mental images in a novel |
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| Writing on two levels of meaning |
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| Where most U.S. short stories first appeared |
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| Next to Christianity, the two religious faiths with the most U.S. adherents |
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| Noted French existentialist writer and philosopher |
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| Movement that seeks to unify Christians worldwide |
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| Meeting of Catholic leaders that modernized the Church |
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| African-American woman who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 |
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| Modern fiction that mixes fantastical and realistic events (e.g. Gabriel Garcia Marquez) |
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| Push by clergy in Latin America to get the Church more involved in social reform |
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| American poets of the 1950s and 1960s who condemned middle-class life |
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| New Englander who was the most popular U.S. poet of his time |
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| U.S. dramatist who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire |
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| U.S. dramatist who wrote The Crucible |
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| Best-known U.S. center of professional theater |
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| New style of music first embraced by young people in the 1950s |
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| U.S. born British poet who wrote The Waste Land |
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| Welsh poet known for his stirring, passionate verse |
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| First U.S. dramatist to win international recognition |
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| Drama that emphasizes the illogical, like Waiting for Godot |
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| Lively U.S. musical style developed in New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicagp |
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| New York theaters that emphasize very inventive plays |
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| Theater company that succeeded Britain's famed Old Vic |
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| Britain's government-supported Shakespearean company |
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| the Royal Shakespeare Company |
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| Formerly a popular form of stage entertainment, a combination of comedy, song, dancing, etc. |
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| U.S. organization that makes grants to artistic groups |
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| the National Endowment for the Arts |
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| This confessional woman poet committed suicide in 1963. |
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| Critical Soviet poet, author of "Babi Yar" |
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| German dramatistwho wrote The Threepenny Opera |
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| U.S. dramatist who wrote A Raisin in the Sun |
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| Country with the largest state-supported theater system |
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| Film that can store reduced images |
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| The attempt to move beyond impressionism |
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| Style that used basic geometric shapes, such as cubes |
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| Style that expressed highly personal, intense views |
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| U.S. comic-strip-style that showed common objects |
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| Use of color and patterns to create optical illusions |
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| Work of artists with little or no formal training |
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| folk art (or primitive art) |
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| American primitive painter who started painting at age 76 |
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| Painting that explored the unconscious mind |
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| First large U.S. modern art show, in 1913 |
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| Nonrepresentational style known for swirling masses of lines |
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| Paintings of simple shapes or objects with as little emotional content as possible |
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| Painting that represents objects very exactly |
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| Most popular U.S. painter of the mid-1900s, a realist known for Christina's World |
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| Enormously popular U.S. artist known for his Saturday Evening Post covers |
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| U.S. pop artist known for his paintings of Campbell's soup cans |
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| Miniature 35-mm camera that revolutionized photographic equipment in 1924 |
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| U.S. documentary photographers of the 1930s |
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| Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange |
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| Americans who helped develop photography as a creative art |
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| Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen |
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| School of art that used extremely bright colors |
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| U.S. group that painted realistic street scenes of modern life |
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| Sculptural works that are actually part of nature |
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| U.S. architect whose buildings harmonized with their natural settings |
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| Buildings with this status may not be destroyed or significantly altered. |
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| Spectacular New York City skyscraper complex with twin 110-story towers (see 09/11/2001) |
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| King Kong's hangout; located in New York City, it is one of the world's tallest skyscrapers. |
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| the Empire State Building |
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| One of the world's tallest buildings, located in Chicago |
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| Sculptural shapes found in nature |
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| Sculptor known for vast reclining figures |
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| U.S. center of modern architecture in the early 1900s |
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| Famed German school of design, founded in 1919 |
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| Plain, severe architectural style with expanses of steel and glass |
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| Building material with metal rods for extra strength |
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| Renowned Swiss architect of the international style |
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| Chinese-American architect noted for broad, irregular geometric shapes |
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| Architectural movement that rejects the international style |
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| Moving sculpture form invented by Alexander Calder |
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| Romanian sculptor of Bird in Space |
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| American woman who assembled man-made or machine-made objects into sculptures |
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| Pioneering group of modern American architects |
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| German architect who emphasized functionalism |
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| The master of glass and steel architecture |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright's long, low buildings |
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