The critic Philip Rahv once distinguished between the redskin and paleface traditions in American letters. |
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But Hillerman's really bad characters come from off the reservation: paleface drug smugglers, land developers, crooked anthropologists. |
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Yet to the paleface who is fluent, this can be rather annoying. |
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Our knowledge of the paleface was limited, but we had learned that he brought goods whenever he came, and that our people exchanged furs for his merchandise. |
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At his best he combines the most potent attributes of what Philip Rahv called redskin and paleface writers, managing to be street smart and scholarly, swaggering and cerebral, all at the same time. |
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Beck was roommates with Paleface, sleeping on his couch and attending open mic nights together. |
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