Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Gaullists would hang on to a slim majority, but it was also possible that they would be forced to seek a coalition with the small centrist parties- or even lose control of the Assembly al together to the first leftist coalition since the Popular Front of the 1930s. What ever the results, the Gaullists have al most certainly lost the license, which they had exercised for the past 15 years, to speak for all of France...
...week season in Manhattan, the Jeffrey was busy mixing fun with flimsiness to a sometimes annoying degree. Jive, by the talented young choreographer Eliot Feld, borrowed Morton Gould's Benny Goodmanesque Derivations for Clarinet and Band and set out to pay tribute to the jazz dances of the 1930s and 1940s. What it actually accomplished was to certify all over again that nobody, including Feld, can match Jerome Robbins (Interplay) at the art of choreographing to slick jazz...
Feminist. The oldest generation is brassily represented by Wanda-44 when the narrative begins in 1950. She is "a large, heavy-boned, unpretty woman with a weathered skin, and eyes too deep and close together for their owner to be taken as anything other than troublesome." A 1930s-style feminist -and ex-Communist who left her artist-husband when he began to go commercial-Wanda virtuously teaches her daughter the credo of what used to be quaintly called "free love...
...country veterinarian who has practiced in the Yorkshire dales of northern England for more than three decades, and he clearly and fondly knows the two-footed creatures on his rounds as well as the fourfooted. The result is a collection of word pictures of rural Britain in the 1930s, when the author was starting his career. Like Norman Rockwell sickroom paintings, All Creatures owes some of its charm to the certainty that a lot more antibiotics are used now than four decades...
Wyke is a vestigial man, a remnant of the Golden Age of detective fiction that, for all practical purposes, came to an end in the early 1930s. His was the age of aristocratic crime and criminal butlers, an age that shrugged off the brutal questions of murder and the criminal mind, concentrating instead on ratiocination, the logical elucidation of clues, and rules about playing fair with the reader. Schaffer sets out to murder and bury that genre--as if Dashiell Hammett's and Raymond Chandler's cynically brutal crime stories had not already done so--by revealing Wyke's vindictive...