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“America the Beautiful” originally appeared in Commentary; “Naming Names” in Encounter; “Artists in Uniform,” “Mister Rodriguez of Lisbon,” and “Settling the Colonel’s Hash” in Harper’s Magazine; “The American Realist Playwrights” in Harper’s Magazine and Encounter; “The Vassar Girl” in Holiday; “Tyranny of the Orgasm” in the New Leader; “Letter from Portugal” and “The Vita Activa” in The New Yorker; “An Academy of Risk,” “Characters in Fiction,” and “The Fact in Fiction” in Partisan Review; “A Letter to the Editor of Politics” and “Gandhi” in Politics; “Mlle. Gulliver en Amérique,” “No News,” “Re-called to Life,” and “Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue” in The Reporter; “My Confession” in The Reporter and Encounter.
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