Word: slumlands
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...pasting a tiny sun in a woman's eye as she greets her returning juvenile-delinquent son (pun intended) in The Return of the Prodigal Son. All this intermingling has the effect of broadening his pictures from the specific into the universal. It takes no special knowledge of slumland to appreciate the irony of a startlingly adult little girl licking an ice-cream cone amid hostile stares in a Harlem Summertime ("They grow up fast in that part of town"). Finally, what is true for his Negro subjects becomes true for every man. With this judgment, Bearden...
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