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Backhill Culture
Wilson, Charles Morrow | July 17, 1929 issue

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Culture is not altogether a matter of geographical locality. The backhills have their intellectual life. They hold sensitive spirits and brilliant and appreciative minds. They hold dynamic philosophies, some of them still in infant stages, others hoary with age. The backhills have their literature; a literature of speech, for the most part vague and rambling, but a literature with the profound simplicity of uphill living. A hillman's speech is usually one of isolated colloquialisms and hazy contradictions. His stories are frequently lacking both in beginnings and endings.

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CULTURE; INTELLECTUALS; PHILOSOPHY; LITERATURE; COST & standard of living; COLLOQUIAL language; SPEECH
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