Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Affair. The recruitment of Haavik as a Soviet agent evidently stemmed from her lifelong infatuation with everything Russian-especially men. Her first affair, in the 1930s, was innocent enough: it involved a refugee Soviet artist who left her with fluent Russian. Then, at the end of World War II, Haavik was recruited by Norwegian forces to work as a nurse and interpreter with Soviet prisoners who had been held by the Nazis in local P.O.W. camps. There she fell in love again...
...accused Hiss, the head of the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace and a respected New Dealer with stellar legal and social credentials, of being a Communist. Later Chambers, a self-admitted former Communist spy, added that Hiss had passed State Department documents to the Communist underground in the 1930s. Hiss vigorously denied the accusations, but after two trials on perjury charges he was convicted and sent to prison. Freed after some 44 months in Lewisburg federal prison, Hiss continued to plead his innocence. To this day, he has remained for some an American Dreyfus, persecuted by the far right...
...Blacks as Devastated Victims. This view predominated from the late '40s through the Kennedy Administration. Historian Stanley Elkins, building on black Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier's work in the 1930s, detailed in Slavery (1959) a view that whites had done to blacks what the Nazis did to the Jews. Blacks were-and are-acted upon; they do not themselves act, because their culture was broken by slavery and its racist aftermath. The view awakened liberal guilt and paralleled the rise of the white civil rights movement. The Moynihan report described the devastation of black family life and asked...
Beyond the glass-walled main halls is a vast array of unique aircraft, satellites, rockets and other displays. Howard Hughes' H-1 airplane, designed in the 1930s, is the centerpiece of the flight-technology exhibit. In aerodynamic terms, says Collins' deputy Mel Zisfein, "the H-l is the most beautiful aircraft we have." In 1935 the plane flew at a then record speed of 352 m.p.h. In its day, it was at least a decade ahead of the state of the art of aerodynamics with its smooth, flush-riveted body. With his characteristic attention to detail, Hughes designed...
...Lady Eve. What Rules of the Game did for French comedy, the films of Preston Sturges did for American comedies of the 1930s and 40s. Though he is an explicitly non-political director Sturges's comedies constantly explode the key assumptions of American ideology. To explore their internal contradictions, they use absurd resolutions to undercut both their standard form and premises. He thus stands in direct contrast with Hollywood comedy directors, especially Frank Capra, whose work always ended up uncritically reaffirming the nostrums of American ideology. Though Sturges's other films, such as The Great McGinty, The Palm Beach Story...