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Incident —Countee Cullen 5 Excerpt from The History of Art —H. W. Janson 11 Don't let that horse/eat that violin —Lawrence Ferlinghetti 11 The Upturned Face —Stephen Crane 14 How to Defuse the Population Bomb—Robert S. McNamara zz Population: The Uninvited Guest—Eugene Linden 30 Excerpt from My Lord, What a Morning —Marian Anderson 34 Parent and Child: What's behind spiked hair and pierced ears—Lawrence Kutner 37 Language and the Lunatic Fringe —Doris Lessing 40 Excerpt from Mr. Godolphin—Martha Sullivan Research in Brief: Flight of the Bumblebee —Mary Jones 48 How a New England Legend Came to Be —Alan Ferguson 50 Maintaining the Organic Lawn 51 Village of Snake Charmers Sees Hard Times —Barbara Crossette 52 Assault Weapons Aren't 'the Problem —Gary Kleck 54 Our Two-Sided Brain —John Chaffee 65 Stars —Sara Teasdale 80 Excerpt from Tarzan of the Apes—Edgar Rice Burroughs 91 The Waning Moon—Percy Bysshe Shelley 103 Hagar the Horrible—Dik Browne 103 The First Tastes of Vintage '93—Bryan Miller 104 '80s-Babble: Untidy Treasure —Stefan Kanfer 105 Dermatitis —Samuel M. Bluefarb, M.D. 117 A Brief History of Exercise—Victoria Roberts 143 [The Story of an Hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) —Kate Chopin 177 I'm Your Horse in the Night—Luisa Valenzuela 183 Appointment in Samarra—W. Somerset Maugham 191 Excerpt from Elmira—Richard Brautigan 197 Excerpt from [Fahrenheit 451](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL103200W)—Ray Bradbury 203 Chains 1942—Fanny Tillman Trueherz and Sandra Brown 209 Jack Luggage —William McGr…

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Countee Cullen

30 May 1903 – 9 January 1946

Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter; May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance.