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Harlem's Golden Age began. "Meat was cheap and home brew was strong," wrote Historian Lerone Bennett. "Duke Ellington was at the Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage...
...these days of Fidel Castro and the Alliance for Progress, the Latin American peasant has taken his place with the Mets fan as one of nature's most familiar and least understood noblemen. Silhouetted against a tropical sunset, there he stereotypically stands, leaning on his hoe and dreaming dreams of land reform and a greater gross national product per capita...
...sunset, after two hours of hair-raising sightseeing, Johnson sped to a lonely granite knob that overlooks miles of ranchland. Suddenly meditative, he gazed at the stunning panorama before him. "Look at that sky," he said. "Why would anyone want to leave here and go back and fight...
...ambiguity between a realistic shape and a painting shape." In The Kittiwake and the John Walton, a Maine seascape of two boats, a hull and its shadow are equal pale blues that bobble on a pink sea. It is reality, but a reality that tells how light behaves at sunset and how the artist transforms it into a lustrous image lacking any intimations of nostalgia...
From Berenson, Sunset and Twilight...