Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watching and listening to the frail old aesthete on television, former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan told the House of Commons last week, was like hearing "the rustle of dead leaves underfoot. I could hear those accents of someone from the 1930s...
...story began in the 1930s, when Blunt, now 72, was a Cambridge don. Recruited by Soviet intelligence, he served as a "talent spotter" who recommended Britons for spy work. Among them were Undergraduates Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, who later passed secrets to the U.S.S.R. while working in the British embassy in Washington after World War II. Blunt, a Marxist, joined British intelligence in 1940 and, said Thatcher, became an active spy himself. He supplied information to the Soviets until 1945, when he became royal art curator...
...Vienna, Harris dropped out of Yale and toiled briefly as a press agent for the Shubert brothers before emerging as a theatrical Wunderkind by producing Broadway. Though financially crippled by the stock market crash in 1929, he produced or directed some of the more notable Broadway efforts of the 1930s, including Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-prizewinning Our Town, A Doll's House with Ruth Gordon and The Green Bay Tree with Laurence Olivier. Harris' memoirs, A Dance on the High Wire (Crown; $10) were published early this month...
...styled populist, Dennis Kucinich, elected in 1977 at the age of 31, won nationwide notoriety for his abusive assaults on the city council, Cleve land's big corporations and banks - and even more for the fact that Cleveland last year became the first major U.S. city since the 1930s to default on debt repayments. Cold-shouldered by the Cleveland Democratic organization and almost beaten in a recall election last year, Kucinich fo cused his campaign for re-election on Cleveland's blacks; he persuaded Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes and former Mayor Carl Stokes to endorse...
...that buys their books." He argued repeatedly that a writer's private correspondence should stay that way and urged friends to destroy his letters to them. At the same time, employing his poetic license, he reveled in scandal, luxuriated in gossip. "Who," he asked BBC listeners during the 1930s, "would rather learn the facts of Augustus' imperial policy than discover that he had spots on his stomach...