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A casual visitor to Seventh Avenue that bright Sunday noontime might have thought, on seeing the released congregations, that many had already entered triumphant into the promised land.
This weekly promenade is characterized not only by an extravagant and competitive elegance but also by an all pervading air of criticism. Hither come self-satisfied, varicolored flocks from every fold in Harlem, to mingle and browse, to inspect and sniff, to display and observe and censure.