American Modernist

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    The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
    Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)