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| ... came to Harlem. It combined both the exploiters and the outcasts. Langston Hughes, in describing his first entrance into Harlem from the 135th Street subway exit, said that he felt vitality and hope throbbing in the air. In Black Manhattan, James Weldon Johnson said that Harlem was not a slum ... |
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| ... 1900, Negroes began to move to Harlem. Harlem had been overbuilt with large apartments which the owners were unable to fill. The Lenox Avenue subway had not yet been built, and there was inadequate transportation into the area. As a result, most tenants preferred to live elsewhere. Philip A. Payton, ... |
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| ... York City during and after the Negro Renaissance was Duke Ellington. His well-known theme song "Take the A Train" made reference to the subway line which went to Harlem. By the time jazz had reached Harlem the Negro Renaissance was in full swing. This renaissance, unlike previous art produced ... |
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| ... Section Six. Foster's a criminal, Mataya has a contaminated genome. There is no other way." ---------------------------------------------------------------------While Scopes was riding the elevator down to the subway, he thought of the mouse and wondered if Bolt was born like that, or if he had spent too long in the Pasteur Police. Yet ... |
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| ... should have quit years ago. But he'd sworn an oath and if he quit the Police would make sure he never worked again. The subway stank of urine and the floor was gummy underfoot, like walking on velcro. Far down the platform, hidden by the sullen crowd of workers in ... |
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| ... better. Scopes watched quietly, wishing he was a father. Then Blue saw him and began to play. The crystalline music cut through the hollow subway air and rose like a bird into the vaulted ceiling, a glorious celebration of life. The gray faced crowd was suddenly silent, attentive, as if ... |
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| ... But nothing was the same. Blue quit the day we got back to Hermes. He's done nothing since, gets by somehow, busking in the subway." "Nothing is the same," she said and spun her chair around to work at her terminal. She pulled up a picture of a frail dark- ... |
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| ... of the part he had played in the murder of her parents, of Blue's wife and child too. He thought of Hermes, the stinking subway, the crowds of drudges in their GG uniforms, and Bolt in his pompous office high above, ignorantly dismissing Foster's brilliance. He thought of the wasted ... |
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| ... in the intervening years the volume of traffic created and handled by electricity in centres of dense population has brought into existence the modern subway. But down to the moment of the preparation of this biography, Edison has retained an active interest in transportation problems, and his latest work has ... |
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| ... important parts, but minor details, such, for instance, as the carrying of all steam, water, and air pipes, and electrical conductors in a large subway running from one end of the plant to the other; and, an oiling system for the entire works. This latter deserves special mention, not only ... |
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| ... me a job. You see, I'd never seen a chorus girl, or the Woolworth building, or a cabaret, or a broiled lobster, or a subway. But I was interested and curious about all of them. And Lasker said, `A man who can humanize a rock, or a tree, or a ... |
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