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Article: Discordant Notes: Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha, Community, Race, and Performance Politics
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- The Journal of American Culture
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Blackwell Publishers Dec 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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On the Mountains of the Prairie,
On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,
Gitche Manito, the mighty,
He the Master of Life, descending,
On the red crags of the quarry
Stood erect, and called the nations,
Called the tribes of men together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
The Song of Hiawatha
In the 1957 film Desk Set, Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) heads the research department of a media corporation. In charge of locating obscure bits of information, Watson's powers of recall astound the "methods engineer" (Spencer Tracy) who has invented a computer system to maximize efficiency in the department. Throughout the film, Watson answers telephone calls and provides the answers to callers' queries from ...