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Who created the cinematic masterpieces The Seventh Seal and Winter Light?
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Who wrote The Second Sex, a 1949 treatise that pointed out how men accord women a different and lower existence than themselves?
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Who is the most famous black figure in Western history and an advocate of civil disobedience based on Christian teachings, Thoreau, and Gandhi?
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Who wrote "Howl"?
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Name the form of twentieth century drama that stresses poetic language, abandons realistic plots, concentrates on outrageous situations, and mixes tragedy with comedy.
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What Welsh poet is famous for poetry that has glorious sound and a verse play, in Under Milk Wood?
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Who wrote The Golden Notebook, a 1962 novel that talks about the socialization process that stifles women's creativity?
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What Irish writer created the play Waiting for Godot, in which nothing "happens" in the conventional sense of the word?
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What American painter is known for spontaneous "drip paintings"?
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What innovative composer of such works as Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima believes that music, above all things, must speak to the human heart?
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What late modernist composer is influenced by Zen Buddhism and has created a work in which the performer sits immobile before a keyboard and does not play?
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Name the abstract expressionist artist who stains the canvas with pigment spilled from coffee cans, creating exquisite, amorphous shapes of color.
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Name the mystical abstract expressionist artist who creates huge paintings with no more than two or three fields of color.
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Who created a wooden grid sculpture called Black Wall from found objects that she painted black?
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Who prompted a revolution in linguistics, arguing that below the surface form of sentences lies a deeper linguistic structure that is intuitively grasped by the mind and is common to all languages?
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Name the leader of the Chinese Communists that defeated the ruling Kuomintang Party and installed a socialist system.
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Name the first globe-circling man-made satellite.
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Name the Russian author who writes realistic novels that praise the Russian people while criticizing Marxism.
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Name the author who drew on his experience as a soldier in World War II to capture the horror of modern war in one of his more famous works, which portrays a handful of enlisted men who are victims of their leaders' bad choices.
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Name the playwright who inspired the term "Pinteresque," and describe the Pinteresque style.







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