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Lincoln Kirstein

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Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 – January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet. [1]

87 relations: Adams Memorial (Saint-Gaudens), Altaussee, Apollo (ballet), Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Ballets Russes, Barbara Harrison Wescott, Beaumont Newhall, Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts), Berkshire School, Bernard Perlin, Bipolar disorder, Bisexuality, Bob Balaban, Cecil Beaton, David H. Koch Theater, Donald Windham, Edward Warburg, Elie Nadelman, Eugene Loring, Felix M. Warburg, Filene's, Gagaku, George Balanchine, George Platt Lynes, George Tooker, Gertrude Stein, Glenway Wescott, Handel Medallion, Hartford, Connecticut, Harvard University, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hound & Horn, Imperial Household Agency, Impresario, Jared French, Jean Cocteau, Jerome Robbins, John Burgee, Katherine Anne Porter, Kirstein Building, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts, Louis E. Kirstein, Manhattan, Margaret French Cresson, Martha Swope, Martin Duberman, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Opera, Modernism, ..., Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, National Society of Arts and Letters, Nazi plunder, New York City Ballet, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Paul Cadmus, Paul Claudel, Pavel Tchelitchew, PBS, Philip Johnson, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Rescuing Da Vinci, Roberts Commissions, Rochester, New York, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Royal Society of Arts, School of American Ballet, Serenade (ballet), Sergei Eisenstein, Stanford White, The Harvard Advocate, The Monuments Men, The New York Times, The Observer, The Rape of Europa (book), Varian Fry, Vaslav Nijinsky, Vernon Scannell, Vintage Books, W. Eugene Smith, W. H. Auden, Walker Evans, World War II. Expand index (37 more) »

Adams Memorial (Saint-Gaudens)

The Adams Memorial is a grave marker located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., featuring a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

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Altaussee

Altaussee is a municipality and spa town in the district of Liezen in Styria, Austria.

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Apollo (ballet)

Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as Apollo musagetes, Apolo Musageta, and Apollo, Leader of the Muses) is a neoclassical ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky.

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Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (March 1, 1848 – August 3, 1907) was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance".

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Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.

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Barbara Harrison Wescott

Barbara Harrison Wescott (October 27, 1904 – April 8, 1977) was a publisher.

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Beaumont Newhall

Beaumont Newhall (June 22, 1908 – February 26, 1993) was an American curator, art historian, writer, photographer, and the second director of the George Eastman Museum.

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Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts)

The Royal Society of Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal was instituted in 1956 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth and the 200th anniversary of his membership to the Royal Society of Arts.

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Berkshire School

Berkshire School is a private, co-ed boarding school for grades 9 through 12 located in Sheffield, Massachusetts, USA.

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Bernard Perlin

Bernard Perlin was an American painter.

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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.

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Bob Balaban

Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, author, producer, and director.

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Cecil Beaton

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.

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David H. Koch Theater

The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet, modern and other forms of dance, part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts located at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street in New York City, United States.

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Donald Windham

Donald Windham (July 2, 1920 – May 31, 2010) was an American novelist and memoirist.

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Edward Warburg

Edward Warburg (1908-1992) was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts from New York City.

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Elie Nadelman

Elie Nadelman (born Eliasz Nadelman; February 20, 1882 – December 28, 1946) was a Polish-American sculptor, draughtsman and collector of folk art.

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Eugene Loring

Eugene Loring (August 2, 1911 – August 30, 1982) was an American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and administrator.

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Felix M. Warburg

Felix Moritz Warburg (14 January 1871 – 20 September 1937) was a German-born American banker.

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Filene's

Filene's (originally Filene’s Sons and Co.) was an American department store chain; it was founded by William Filene in 1881.

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Gagaku

is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial Court in Kyoto for several centuries and today by Board of Ceremonies at Tokyo Imperial Palace.

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George Balanchine

George Balanchine (born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; January 22, 1904April 30, 1983) was a choreographer.

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George Platt Lynes

George Platt Lynes (April 15, 1907 – December 6, 1955) was an American fashion and commercial photographer who worked in the 1930s and 1940s.

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George Tooker

George Clair Tooker, Jr. (August 5, 1920 – March 27, 2011) was an American figurative painter.

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.

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Glenway Wescott

Glenway Wescott (April 11, 1901 – February 22, 1987) was an American poet, novelist and essayist.

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Handel Medallion

The Handel Medallion is an American award presented by the City of New York.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film.

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Hound & Horn

Hound & Horn, originally subtitled "a Harvard Miscellany", was a literary quarterly founded by Harvard undergrads Lincoln Kirstein and Varian Fry in 1927.

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Imperial Household Agency

The is an agency of the government of Japan in charge of state matters concerning the Imperial Family, and also keeping of the Privy Seal and State Seal of Japan.

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Impresario

An impresario (from the Italian impresa, "an enterprise or undertaking") is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role similar to that of an artist manager or a film or television producer.

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Jared French

Jared French (February 4, 1905 – January 8, 1988) was an American painter who specialized in the medium of egg tempera.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

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Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer who worked in classical ballet, on Broadway, and in films and television.

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John Burgee

John Burgee (born August 28, 1933) is an American architect noted for his contributions to Postmodern architecture.

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Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.

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Kirstein Building

The Kirstein Building is a historic industrial and commercial building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts

The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.

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Louis E. Kirstein

Louis E. Kirstein (June 9, 1867 – December 10, 1942) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Margaret French Cresson

Margaret French Cresson (1889–1973) was an American sculptor, and daughter of sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931).

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Martha Swope

Martha Joan Swope (February 22, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American photographer of theatre and dance.

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Martin Duberman

Martin Bauml Duberman (born August 6, 1930) is an American historian, biographer, playwright, and gay rights activist.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art

The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art is an American foundation, which honors the legacy of the men and women who served in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (known as the "Monuments Men") during and after World War II.

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Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program

The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II.

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National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame

The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, in the Saratoga Spa State Park, Saratoga Springs, New York, was established in 1986.

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National Society of Arts and Letters

The National Society of Arts and Letters, known as the NSAL, is an American non-profit group founded in 1944 as a women's organization to assist promising young artists through arts competitions, scholarships and other career opportunities.

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Nazi plunder

Nazi plunder refers to art theft and other items stolen as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of the ruling Nazi Party of Germany.

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New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metropolitan Opera House and the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

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Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary television and radio public broadcasting network for most of the U.S. state of Oregon as well as southern Washington.

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Paul Cadmus

Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999) was an American artist.

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Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptress Camille Claudel.

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Pavel Tchelitchew

Pavel Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (21 September 1898, Kaluga, near Moscow – 31 July 1957, Rome) was a Russian-born surrealist painter, set designer and costume designer.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Philip Johnson

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with the comparable Congressional Gold Medal—the highest civilian award of the United States.

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Rescuing Da Vinci

Rescuing Da Vinci is a largely photographic, historical book about art reclamation and preservation during and after World War II, written by American author Robert M. Edsel, published in 2006 by Laurel Publishing.

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Roberts Commissions

The Roberts Commission is one of two presidentially-appointed commissions.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs is the presidential library and final resting place of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), and his wife Nancy Reagan.

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Royal Society of Arts

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is a London-based, British organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges.

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School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet (SAB) is an American classical ballet school and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

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Serenade (ballet)

Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op.

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Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (p; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

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Stanford White

Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.

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The Harvard Advocate

The Harvard Advocate, the art and literary magazine of Harvard College, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the United States.

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The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men is a 2014 war film directed by George Clooney, and written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Rape of Europa (book)

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War is a book by Lynn H. Nicholas and a subsequent documentary film.

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Varian Fry

Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist.

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Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; Ва́цлав Фоми́ч Нижи́нский;; Wacław Niżyński; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.

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Vernon Scannell

Vernon Scannell (23 January 1922 – 16 November 2007) was a British poet and author.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a publishing imprint established in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf.

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W. Eugene Smith

William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978) was an American photojournalist, who has been described as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay." His major photo essays include World War II photographs, the dedication of an American country doctor and a nurse midwife, the clinic of Dr Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa, the city of Pittsburgh, and the pollution which damaged the health of the residents of Minamata in Japan.

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.

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Walker Evans

Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Kirstein

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