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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Continental Op Information
1,245 words, approx. 4 pages
 The Continental Op is a fictional character created by Dashiell Hammett. A private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office, he never gives his name and so is known only by his job... 
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 Multichannel News Continental's St. Paul op tackles violence issue. (Continental Cablevision)
03/07/1994: 329 words, approx. 1 pages In response to recent calls from some quarters for measures to protect children from TV violence, Continental Cablevision in St. Paul, Minn., plans to launch a marketing campaign focusing on the modification of an existing remote control feature. "CLICS," or Customized Line-up... summary from source:
The Boston Herald OP-ED; Continental drift is Anti-Americanism.(Editorial)
06/18/2001: 718 words, approx. 2 pages If the Europeans had a continental anthem, it would be a protracted whine. Their coat of arms should include a bottle of Geritol, symbolic of tired blood. Like a pack of brats, they're always sniveling about something the grownups (that's us) are doing,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by David T. Bazelon
1,788 words, approx. 6 pages
The core of Hammett's art is his version of the masculine figure in American society. The Continental Op constitutes the basic pattern for this figure, which in the body of Hammett's work undergoes a revealing development. The older detectives of literature—exemplified most unequivocally by the figure of Sherlock Holmes—stood on a firm social and moral basis, and won their triumphs through the exercise of reason…. The question of his motives never arises, simply because it...
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