... , music, food, consumer goods, and housing. With ease and abundance and fast communications came an erosion of regional differences, a merged culture that many artists saw as a threat. Authors such as Raymond Carter began to write what they knew, the simple and the logical, by using minimalism. Carver's story Cathedral opens up with a line stating, "This blind man, an old friend of ... ...

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