Van Vechten
Americannoun
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“Breaking up and reconstituting California into three separate parts would be more complicated than Brexit,” Van Vechten said.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2018
Friday-Sunday: As part of the celebration leading up to the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, "Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten" opens the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2016
In the show’s most chilling wink, he makes the white Harlem Renaissance gadfly Carl Van Vechten into a villainous scold who attacks the show while damning it to irrelevance.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2016
There’s Carl Van Vechten, calling Stevens “a dainty rogue in porcelain” who was “big, blond, and burly”—he stood six feet two—but possessed of “a tiny reserved spirituality.”
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016
Yes, if this rumor holds, Lieutenant Van Vechten, your post is likely to become one of more honor than safety.
From The Bride of Fort Edward by Bacon, Delia
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