Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formidable. Isolated by a bordering ring of mountains and agriculturally self-sufficient, Szechwan has a long tradition of rebellion against central governments. It has often proved a handy retreat for Chinese rulers in trouble, from the Emperor Ming of the 8th century to Chiang Kai-shek in the 1930s. So independent are the Szechwanese, that, as one Chinese proverb has it, "in Szechwan the dogs even bark...
Died. Dr. Hein von Diringshofen, 67, German pioneer in aviation and space medicine, who in the early 1930s was the first to study the effects of high gravity forces and weightlessness on the human body, frequently used himself as a guinea pig in hell-diving Stukas and free-fall parachute jumps, in 1934 constructed the first experimental human centrifuge, predecessor of the ones now used in training astronauts, later served as the Luftwaffe's chief medical officer in World War II; of cancer; in Frankfurt, Germany...
...West has a fresh chance to examine this distant literary figure. Some of his books were translated into English in the 1930s, but they attracted little notice. Now his publisher has placed three Agnon titles in U.S. bookstores, where they are selling with a briskness that owes much to simple curiosity...
...take off, and arriving ships were turned away from ports. Suddenly, a land of 8,550,000 people, roughly the size of the state of New York, found itself totally cut off from the rest of a puzzled world, in the first military takeover in Free Europe since the 1930s...
That is roughly how a Barbara Garson of the 1930s might have written the Macbird! of that era. As Robert Bendiner's book suggests, the virulent abuse poured on the Roosevelts by a small but vocal portion of the public matches the feelings of today's left toward Lyndon Johnson...