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[quote=Anonymous]I was surprised to hear the kinds of responses elicited by this thread. When I read the title, I expected to hear stories about how sophisticated or intellectual people were despite their lack of advanced degrees, etc. So here's my anecdote. I was still living in the midwest, about to leave for Boston to start a doctoral program. One day I bought a tall bookcase and was trying to get it up the steps of my apartment building and into my apartment. It wasn't heavy but unwieldy. The building custodian saw me struggling, grabbed the other side of the bookcase, and helped me get it inside. On the way out, the guy noticed a picture I had my wall and asked, "Is that a Jacob Lawrence print?" Shame on me for being surprised that a middle aged white guy with a beer belly and jeans riding low from the weight of his tool belt would recognize the work of an African American artist that most well educated people have never heard of. [/quote]
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