Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Leontief developed his model at Harvard in the early 1930s, input-output analysis has become the backbone of planning chiefly in socialist and developing nations...
...people in the world today, however, cannot afford to be philosophers. They are preoccupied by more immediate problems--problems which can be understood and resolved without any recourse to an ethereal metaphysics. Vietnamese peasants were distraught in the 1930s not because they wondered if Victor Hugo was a deity, but because French colonialism was destroying their traditional society. American young people today are not confused because they find it difficult to choose between the merits of the Guru and the Yogi, but because this country is rocked by a deep structural and ideological crisis, a crisis for which no group...
Neruda's early work was rhapsodic and lushly romantic, at once Whitmanesque and surrealistic. During the 1930s, the style and tone of his verse abruptly changed. The catalyst was the Spanish Civil War, which Neruda witnessed as a Chilean consul in Spain...
...myth and nightmare to say something complex about 20th century society. Auden was a brilliant colonizer of lands they discovered; less remote but also less magical than Eliot; wiser and clearer-sighted than Pound; younger and metrically more inventive, with more humor too. He was first heard in the 1930s, sharpening his satiric clauses on the foibles of pre-Munich England...
Salvador Allende was a medical student in Santiago when he helped form the Socialist Party of Chile in the early 1930s. He served briefly as Minister of Health in a left-leaning government in the late thirties, attempting to distribute milk nationwide to ward off gnawing malnutrition...