Word: larsen
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...Thoke came in to relieve Whitton, and allowed two runs to come in. After senior Allison Batten singled in a run, the Big Red brought in pinch hitter Kelli Larsen...
...Larsen had doubled in the game-winning runs against Thoke in an important contest during the 1999 season. On Saturday she reprised her role as Crimson killer, delivering a clutch two-out single to bring Batten in and give Cornell the lead...
...Thoke was resilient to the end, playing through a line drive that deflected of her knee in the top of the eighth. But then sophomore Kelli Larsen-who has been mostly a bench player to this day at Cornell-delivered a clutch, pinch-hit, two-run, and two-out RBI double to put the Big Red up 3-1. The Harvard bats could not answer. Cornell clinched the Ivy title with a sweep of Dartmouth the next...
...letters." He spent much of his time frequenting Harlem's famous cabarets and hosting legendary parties where struggling black artists could establish contacts with New York's influential whites. Van Vechten is credited with directly assisting in the publication of many works by black authors, including Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, the reissuing of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and many of Hughes's works (he indeed is solely responsible for launching Hughes's major publishing career). As the letters between him and Hughes attest, Van Vechten seemed genuinely enamored with the black culture...
...dismissal of Van Vechten into the historical periphery. Instead we see a man dedicated to and intensely interested in the promotion of black art and, Bernard argues, devoted to using art as a way of challenging racial barriers. Bernard would thus place Van Vechten within the literary vanguard of Larsen, Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, all of whom defended Van Vechten from his harshest critics. These letters reveal that Van Vechten was the first line of editing for most of Hughes's career. His role as both editor and promoter of Hughes's work places Van Vechten in a pivotal...