Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LITTLE TOUCH OF SCHMILSSON IN THE NIGHT (RCA). Having gone from pop poet to hard rocker in recent years, Harry Nilsson here croons his way back into the 1930s and 1940s...
...early 1930s, when Goldberg was in his 40s, his quality began to decline. Still, he continued to work successfully for years as an ultraconservative editorial-page cartoonist with the New York Sun and Journal. Goldberg died in 1970 at the age of 87. Neither Biographer Marzio's scholarly research nor the cartoonist's own occasional triumphs- he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon in 1947 - can disguise the fact that the man had lost his inspired, raffish touch; most of his late work was simply dull. All of which poses a question: How can a person leave...
...label him an urban Grandma Moses, but Fasanella's paintings are crammed with emotions that range from sentimentality to outrage at the assassination of President Kennedy. His strongest qualities as an artist are energy and a prodigal memory. One need not have known New York in the 1930s to feel nostalgia when looking at this book. Fasanella is 59, and much of his world has already disappeared without trace...
...After high school, Sendak took a job with a Manhattan window-display house, where he constructed papier-mache and plaster models, including Snow White and the seven dwarfs. "It was the schlock of the 1930s that made up my creative mentality," says Sendak. He continues: "Two years ago, I saw Walt Disney's Pinocchio and loved it, even though the Blue Fairy looked like Joan Bennett and Cleo the Goldfish looked like a drag queen...
DAVID BEN-GURION was one of the last of the seemingly larger-than-life national leaders who emerged in the 1930s and 40s. A few of these men--China's Mao, Argentina's Peron, Yugoslavia's Tito--are still at the helm, but almost all of them have been replaced by people like Leonid Brezhnev and President Nixon, uninspiring but still dangerously powerful...