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Perspicuous Opacity

Moore, Marianne | October 24, 1936 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Geographical History of America, or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind," by Gertrude Stein. The author has a theory that the American has been influenced by the expansiveness of the country and the circumstance that there are great areas of flat land where one sees few birds, flowers, or animals. There are no nightingales, she says and the eagle is not the characteristic bird it once was. Whereas the mocking-birds have spread and perhaps they will be all over the national bird of the U.S.

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GEOGRAPHICAL History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind, The (Book); UNITED States -- Social conditions; NATIONAL characteristics; STEIN, Gertrude, 1874-1946; BOOKS; UNITED States

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