Word: 1920s
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...terrorist raid unprecedented since the Russian civil war of the 1920s, more than 80 Chechens crossed into the neighboring Stavropol territory, concealed in trucks supposedly transporting coffins from the war zone, to launch a daring assault at high noon on the city of Budyonnovsk (pop. 100,000), some 70 miles from the Chechen border. Splitting into squads of five and six, the gunmen -- armed with automatic rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers -- fanned out across the city, joining up, according to Russian security officials, with rebels already in place...
...emphasized the importance of his Black mother to his quest for a viable personhood in our white supremacist-riddled American society. From Frederick Douglass, through James Weldon Johnson (head of the NAACP in the 1930s), to Jean Toomer (a major novelist of the New Negro Movement in the 1920s through 1930s), and down to the many many thousands of mixed-heritage African-Americans today, there has been and remains a perpetual juggling of the meanings (self-meanings) stemming from one's biracial realities...
Otto Friedrich -- pianist, historian, adventurer, rose gardener and passionate journalist -- was above all a man who had to write. In addition to his prodigious work during two decades as a writer and editor at TIME, Otto wrote 14 books on subjects ranging from Berlin in the 1920s to Hollywood in the 1940s to the End of the World-to say nothing of the nine children's books he co-authored with his wife Priscilla, with whom he had five children of his own. When Otto died of cancer last week at age 66, he had just completed a monumental study...
...1920s New Orleans, Williams' play is a work of psychological warfare. When the genteel Blanche Dubois mysteriously insinuates herself into the lives of her younger sister, Stella, and Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski, she precipitates her own fall, begun twenty years earlier on the family plantation. Part of the difficulty of the play lies in the sense that everything following the inital fall from glory is simply a decades long after-shock...
...Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. It contains only 64 paintings. Fairweather's output was tiny; he destroyed or lost much of his work, and in the end about 500 pieces have survived, including drawings-not much for a man who began to paint in the early 1920s. And since he was a very uneven artist, their quality varies widely. He cared absolutely nothing for permanence; he used cheap powder colors on cardboard most of the time, thus bequeathing a nightmare to museum conservators. Only the actual process of painting, of resolving the image and getting it to stand...