Word: 1930s
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Forbes admitted his comparison of the present situation to that of the 1920s and 1930s is not entirely perfect, but nevertheless maintained the validity of his analogy...
Chiang, who was advised by Baunbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, the chair of the English Department, said he set his illustrated thesis in the 1930s "to make it accessible to modern audiences...
...record show that in the matter of human technology vs. the South American fire ant, technology has been its own worst enemy. Brought to the southern U.S. as shipboard stowaways in the 1930s, the fierce-biting ant (which likes to sink its mandibles not only into people and livestock, but also into electrical insulation, sometimes knocking out traffic lights) was officially targeted for eradication following the wartime development of DDT and other superpesticides. After three decades of spraying fire-ant territory with the killer compounds, however, the U.S. government was forced to concede defeat. It turns out the pesticides...
This year it is Ilya Ehrenburg's turn in the spotlight. Ehrenburg, probably unknown to most Americans only 30 years after his death, was one of the most famous Soviet writers from the 1930s to the 1960s, serving as the USSR's main cultural emissary to the West under Stalin and Khrushchev. While he wrote dozens of novels and books of verse, he became best known as a correspondent for Izvestia and other Soviet newspapers during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, when his fiercely anti-Fascist sentiments made him a favorite of Red Army soldiers...
...late 1920s, Ehrenburg was warming to the Communist regime, and in the mid-1930s he became the Izvestia correspondent in France, sealing his compromise with Stalinism. From then on his life became an excruciating balancing act, trying simultaneously to appease the Kremlin and make some small gains for what he believed in--artistic freedom and the rights of Jews, foremost among them...