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REPORTER AT LARGE about Tahiti. Gauguin wrote a short, impressionistic book about his first stay in Tahiti, which lasted two years. Author re-read "Noa …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a contingent of American Southerners who, in the years following the Civil War, left the ruined Confederacy to make a new start in …
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PROFILE of Eugene O'Neill, author of 38 plays. In 1920, only four years after the Providence players gave "Bound East for Cardiff," one of his first …
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PROFILE of Eugene O'Neill. His father, James O'Neill, starred in such dramas as "A Celebrated Case," "Two Orphans and "David Garrick." In 1872, …
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PROFILE of Charles Prendergast, artist, and the greatest living maker of incised gesso panels, picture frames and chests. Tells about his famous brother …
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PROFILE of Jean Wahl, the French philosopher, poet, and Sorbonne professor who has been called by Jacques Maritain "the best philosopher among the …