Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fashionable French film directors (Rohmer, Truffaut) are now busily reinventing the 19th century novel of feeling for cinema audiences, who, it sometimes seems, no longer read. One can hardly blame Robert Crichton, therefore, if he puts between hard covers the makings of one of those harrowing, heartwarming 1930s film sagas that used to star Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, attractively but thinly disguised as proletarians on the rise. The time is turn of the century; the place, a Scottish coalpit town complete with oppressed miners, strikes and lockouts, an unfeeling owner and a bloody-minded mine superintendent named Mr. Brothcock...
DAMES AT SEA IS A PASTICHE of all the 1930s musicals you've never seen but know all about anyway, the sort of show in which the heroine introduces herself as Ruby, "just a simple girl from Centerville, U.S.A." who's come East with "nothing but a pair of tapshoss and a prayer in my heart...
Investors searching for hints about the market's future also rely on a P/E statistic: the composite ratio of the 30 blue-chip stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average. Since the 1930s this figure has gone below 10 only during severe bear markets, and above 20 only in overexuberant bull markets. Its post-Depression peak was 24.2 in September 1961, shortly before a disastrous market break. It declined from 18 or 19 for several years in the early and mid-1960s to 15.7 a year ago and has increased only to 16.7 now. This is on the low side...
...House and just now going on sale (at $500 a set through Macmillan) in the U.S. Sixteen volumes and 12,000 pages long, totaling more than 12 million words, it is the first major Jewish encyclopedia in any language in 65 years. The work was begun during the early 1930s in Germany but became one of the first casualties of Hitler's 1933 book burning. In 1966 it was started over from scratch in Israel, this time in English. Bankrolled mainly by loans from the Israeli government and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the $5 million project utilized...
...while trying to scrape a living as a freelance aviation writer. Late one night he is strolling by a canal near the beach and he hears a voice "behind and to the right" say: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (John Livingston is the name of a great racing pilot of the 1930s). The hair on Bach's neck rises. He turns his head. Nobody there. He walks home fast, enters his room and sits on the bed. After a few minutes he says aloud just what anyone who knows Dick Bach realizes he would say: "Look, voice. If you think I know...