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...After “A Darker Shade of Crimson” was published, Navarrette got a call from a retired doctor in Fresno, where Navarrette now works as a journalist. “He said, ‘When I was going through USC in the 1930??s, I was one of only a handful of Jewish kids. And so my experience of being Jewish at USC in the 1930??s,’ he said, ‘was exactly the same as you being Latino in Harvard in the 1980?...
...become in a global economy, we just need to look at the fact that no countries have been spared,” he said. Lawrence, however, also pointed out that protectionism is not a viable response for containing the fallout. “If we think back to the 1930??s, I think there’s little doubt that dramatic increases in tariff in the United States made that depression much deeper, and left a legacy that took us decades to remove,” he said. Lawrence added that despite the depth of the global recession...
...Lowell bells, the oldest of which dates back to the 17th century, were purchased by an American industrialist just as Josef Stalin was seizing church artifacts across the Soviet Union and melting them down to raw material. The industrialist, Charles R. Crane, gave the bells to Harvard in 1930??the same year the monastery was closed. “These bells serve as a link between the past and present of the Danilovsky Monastery,” Father Roman, the bell ringer at the monastery, said through a translator. “They were witnesses to many historical...
...have been part of what Dylan has given us. But these ones come from equally interesting places, from all the musical, literary and other traditions to which the genius of Dylan has cosied up over the decades, from Civil War America, from the Delta and Atlanta blues of the 1930??s, from poems and melody “from many moons ago,” to use his words. The last line of its last song is even borrowed from the exile poetry of Ovid, 2000 years of moons ago, as that poet’s life winds...
...1930??s, Harvard was not welcoming to Jews, says fellow composer Harold S, Shapero ’41, a friend of Bernstein’s in Eliot House...