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1It may be true that not everybody knows how to colour,1 but almost everybody, at least in the Europeanized world, has experience with a specific medium of colouring: colouring books or colouring sheets.2 This statement might have been incorrect a century or more ago. However, since then, the combined forces of cheap printing, affordable crayons, pedagogical theories and practices, the world of advertising and merchandising, and the uncertain career paths of people with some education in the arts have made the emergence of a new creative practice possible. At least since the 1960s, innumerable colouring books have been published in immense print runs throughout Europe and the United States, becoming a part of children’s everyday life to such an extent that when “colouring books for adults” became a trend in the early 2010s,3 they had to be labelled as such—“colouring book” being almost synonymous with “children’s colouring books”.4

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Letters: Summer 1926 (New York Review Books Classics) [1 ed.] 0940322714, 9780940322714

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LETTERS SUMMER 1926 BORIS PASTERNAK (1890-1960), the son of a distinguished painter, was born in Moscow and made his reputation as a poet with his first collection, My Sister, Life, written in 1917. Silenced bygd the Soviet authorities for much of his career, in 1957 Pasternak permitted the publication abroad of his novel Doctor Zhivago. He was forced by his government to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. MARINA TSVETAYEVA (1892-1941), whose father was a classicist and whose mother was a pianist, was born in Moscow and published her first book of poems at seventeen. Tsvetayeva left Russia in 1922 with her two children and her husband, Sergei Efron, who fought against the Red Army in the 1918-1921 Civil War but was later to become a Soviet spy. Often living from hand to mun, the family remained abroad until 1939. Two year

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1. “Who stinketh the most?”: Slavery, Civil Rights, and a Colorblind Country

1In 1970, 1776, a musical about the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Second Continental Congress was the first full length Broadway production ever performed at the vit House. Mary Bracken Phillips, who had replaced Betty Buckley as Martha Jefferson, was allowed to wander the White House in her eighteenth-century costume and appeared like a ghost through the walls to a tour group.1 Almost forty years later, Lin-Manuel Miranda debuted the opening number from his concept album about the life of Alexander Hamilton at a poetry and spoken word night at the Obama White House. Seven years after that, Miranda returned with the cast of his Pulitzer and Tony award-winning musical to perform the show. Both of these musicals are of particular interest to presidents of the United States because they tell the story of the founding of the nation and seek to contribute to a collective understanding