hour
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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hour XIII. ME.
ure,
our(e), later
hour(e) — AN.
ure, OF.
ore,
eure (mod.
heure) :- L.
hōra — Gr.
hórā season, time of day, hour (cf.
YEAR).
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Van Vechten's secret.(Carl Van Vechten, male nude photography)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...photographs of male nudes taken by Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) and located at the...with and somewhat fascinated by Van Vechten's eccentric life and his well...The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten. It was in 1932 that...
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Profile: New compilation of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten letters gives readers a window not only into their relationship, but of the Harlem Renaissance, as well
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 6/25/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...compilation of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten letters gives readers a window not...literary career is largely forgotten. Carl Van Vechten found Hughes a publisher...Coast Blues, Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten gossiped about Bessie Smith herself...
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Your with pomegranates: The correspondence of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Magazine article from: Humanities; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; LANGSTON HUGHES AND CARL VAN VECHTEN MET AT A benefit party in Harlem...the bartender's last call. Carl Van Vechten's interest in black culture...variety of careers. By contrast, Carl Van Vechten's childhood was so stable that...
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964
Magazine article from: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education; 1/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...collection of letters between Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten records a friendship of great importance to African...foundations, and education. The 44-year-old Carl Van Vechten -- one of these middlemen -- was at this time already...
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'Living Portraits' by Carl Van Vechten Featured in Beinecke Library Show.
M2 Presswire; 4/27/2009; 657 words
; ...April 2009-Yale University: 'Living Portraits' by Carl Van Vechten Featured in Beinecke Library Show(C)1994-2009...New Haven, Conn. - The work of noted photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) will be highlighted in an exhibition...
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964.
Magazine article from: African American Review; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. New York: Knopf, 2001. 356 pp. $30.00. On 16 August 1943, Carl Van Vechten began a letter to Langston Hughes, "What letters...
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Generations in Black and White: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection.
Magazine article from: African American Review; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) had an early career as...B. Du Bois to Sammy Davis, Jr. Van Vechten began in 1932 with his close friend James...most of them luminously informative. When Carl Van Vechten escaped from Iowa to go to...
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review; 5/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 edited by Emily Bernard Alfred A. Knopf...life and work are celebrated, while the mention of Carl Van Vechten's name draws "blank stares," in the words of...
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What's Happening: `The Passionate Observer' Carl Van Vechten
Newspaper article from: Washington Afro-American; 7/15/1995; ; 481 words
; ...1995 What's Happening: `The Passionate Observer' Carl Van Vechten. More than 70 vintage photographs of internationally...13 in "The Passionate Observer: Photographs of Carl Van Vechten" at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery...
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Book; 3/1/2001; ; 514 words
; ...Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 Edited by Emily Bernard Alfred A. Knopf...Langston Hughes and his white, patrician mentor, Carl Van Vechten. In sixteen volumes of poetry, twenty plays, three...
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Carl Van Vechten
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Carl Van Vechten American author and photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a champion of modern music and dance in the early years of the twentieth century, and went on to enjoy critical acclaim for his witty novels that chronicled...
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Van Vechten, Carl
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Van Vechten, Carl (1880–1964), born in Iowa, graduated from the University...urbanity, Gallic sophistication, watered aesthetics, and an agile pen, Van Vechten described the manners and mannerisms of his era's decadent elegance...
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West, Dorothy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Kid." West also developed alliances with influential white writers such as H. L. Mencken, Carl Van Vechten, and Fannie Hurst. Both Van Vechten and Hurst became West's mentors. Despite these strong connections, West had trouble publishing...
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Harlem Renaissance
Book article from: American Decades
...critical attention from white intellectuals. Locke and Van Vechten The movement was shaped significantly by the influence...and most influential essays of the decade, and by Carl Van Vechten, a white editor and patron who became both literary...
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Walker, A’lelia 1885–1931
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...Cullen, and music critic, photographer and novelist Carl Van Vechten. According to Steven Watson in The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930, Van Vechten once said of his friend, “You should have...
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