Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story of Camille, with some strains from La Traviata thrown in for good measure. Imagine a hothouse hybrid of the work of Ken Russell and Roger Gorman, and the overstuffed, overcharged texture of the film can just be approximated. La Paloma is set in Europe of the 1930s as it might have been dreamed by Aubrey Beardsley. What makes the movie so fresh, in addition to lavish visual invention, is Schmid's ability to reconcile opposites: reverence and mockery, cruelty and poignancy. La Paloma is the kind of necromancy that unsettles equilibrium and kindles quick, if baffled responses: whatever...
...Schweitzer, her spiritual mentor, in Africa during the 1950s; of Artur Rubinstein and Bruno Walter, who were patrons when she was searching for an orchestra to lead; of a fight with Tenor John Charles Thomas, who refused to perform in concert with a woman as a conductor. In the 1930s Antonia organized an all-woman orchestra in New York. Later she brought men into it, because, as she says quite reasonably, "women and men are together in life." Along with her various orchestras, sheponducted a running feud with Pianist Jose Iturbi, who allowed lhat he thought the female gender made...
Longtime Gladiator. There, for the most part, the similarities end. A longtime gladiator in the public arena, Myrdal served in the Swedish Parliament in the 1930s and was an impor tant architect of the Swedish Labor Party's welfare state. He was his country's Commerce Minister from 1945 to 1947 and head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe for ten years after that. He is a considerably more familiar figure than his fellow laureate, largely because of two major works published nearly a quarter-century apart. While a professor at the Uni versity of Stockholm...
...take unilateral action to get the funds they need to pay OPEC. Through subsidies and dumping, nations would drive all-out to increase their exports; meanwhile, through stiffer tariffs and quotas, they would wall out imports. Such a mercantilist policy could lead to a tragic rerun of the 1930s, when most of the industrial nations were intensively trying to "beggar their neighbor." The result was a disastrous contraction of world trade and paralysis of the international monetary system. Thus the answer to the crisis created by high oil prices, conclude Simon and Kissinger, is not a recycling mechanism...
...have grown weary of crisis talk. Despite prophecies of disaster round the corner, they have continued to find jobs, and pay packets by and large have kept up with prices. The present economic climate, with inflation approaching 20%, is more serious than anything the country has faced since the 1930s. But it still seems to be something better understood by economists and merchant bankers than by the man in the street. As Jimmy Buchanan, a Scottish shipyard worker observes: "Aye, you can read about it, but you can't feel it much...