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For Whom the Bell Tolls enabled Hemingway to look forward into Civil War tragedy as well as back into Donne's Devotions . In this instance, indeed, the impact of the novel was so great that any reference to the quotation for the past half century could not help evoking both the Hemingway story and the Donne passage--which was thereby given an entirely fresh currency.
Among modern attractions, the flashiest is Oriental Studio 2000, Guangzhou’s answer to Hollywood’s Universal City, where daily shows are staged on two movie sets, one evoking notorious Shanghai in the 1930s, the other a traditional courtyard in the throes of a kungfu battle.
In other words, the forces that brought this book into existence had little enough to do with Du Bois--although evoking him is of critical importance to the book's audience as a kind of typology about the struggle of black people to gain self-knowledge, a story that black people never tire of reciting, even today with a plethora of black bookshops and publishers grinding out books on black subjects or with a black point of view with ever-increasing regularity--and a great deal to do with the shift that has taken place within the black population of the United States in the last 25 years and the dramatic change in its status.
With his last and greatest piece of sculpture brilliantly evoking all the fierce resolution of a condottiere riding into battle, Andrea Verrocchio need not regret abandoning painting to his pupil Leonardo da Vinci.
And this is why, when Faludi uses the word "emasculation," what I think she is evoking is a fear of diminished potency which is more economic than sexual.
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