Word: 1930s
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Died. Baldur von Schirach, 67, arrogant, monomaniacal leader of Hitler's youth movement in the 1930s; in Krov, West Germany. Son of a German aristocrat and an American mother, Von Schirach declared that "the lives of all German youths belong solely to Adolf Hitler," and undertook to train his charges ("physically, spiritually and morally") to follow the Führer unquestioningly. After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder...
...assembly of animation as could be imagined. By comparison, the Bakshi version looks like Fantasia. To escape the shrill accusations of his wife, Fritz drifts off into cannabis reveries where his libido can run unchecked and where his paranoia eventually assumes control. He idles back to the high-stepping 1930s, then works his way up to the present and a visit with a Bowery bum, whom he accidentally immolates. In the film's most elaborate episode, he eases himself off into the future...
...narrative runs from the early 1930s through the end of World War II, covering journalistic sojourns abroad and in Fleet Street and wartime experiences as a cloak-and-dagger man in Africa and Europe. Among Muggeridge's notable colleagues of that tune were Graham Greene and the double agent Kim Philby. Spying depressed Muggeridge so that he even flirted with suicide one night in Mozambique by swimming out to sea. Unlike Evelyn Waugh, whose attempt to drown himself was foiled by a sting from a jellyfish, Muggeridge simply turned back to shore "without thinking or deciding." Through...
...year on the frames of the fashion-conscious. The Loose Look is about to sweep in, complete with low hems, long sleeves and soft, yielding, body-skimming fabrics; the models swirling down the runways of Paris salons had the air of well-dressed and well-heeled extras in a 1930s movie...
Inflation may be becoming to the 1970s what depression was to the 1930s-not only an economic agony but a crisis that threatens the stability of society. Like the Great Depression four decades ago, today's Great Inflation has struck a blow at Americans' usual optimism about the future and replaced it with a deep worry-about whether families will be able to afford travel, comfortable housing, quality education for their children, even the foods they like best...