Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfortunate fact that a system which, by definition, should filter out Buchananism has failed to do so thus far. No one is facing the upsetting reality that white, Anglo-Saxon supremacy has grown popular. No one is condemning Buchanan for a social ideology reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s. No one is standing up to Buchanan purely for the purpose of preserving all for which this country stands. It is feeling deprived of the full portrait of "Buchanan as bigot" which leads me to this artistic task...
...painters who reported on it were nicknamed the Ashcan School by a critic in the 1930s, and the label has stuck. They were Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, Everett Shinn, William Glackens and George Bellows, and among them they created the first art of urban America. The current show at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, "Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York," is a fine introduction to their work...
DIED. JULIAN HILL, 91, Du Pont research chemist whose work in the 1930s led to the creation of nylon, one of the company's most versatile and lucrative finds; in Hockessin, Delaware...
...that possessed Central Europe 60 years ago. Past and present reminders of that madness now reach us with context-blurring frequency. Contemporary television images of skinheads tattooed with swastikas and the firebombed houses of Germany's Turkish immigrants regularly cross paths with rerun footage of Brownshirts rampaging in the 1930s. Have the unholy dead returned to inhabit new bodies? Hasselbach's zombie-like voice, preserved to creepy effect by American co-author Tom Reiss, can almost make you think so. "As he lay on the ground, Frank and I kicked him in the neck, in the stomach, in the face...
When it premiered in France in the 1950s, Jean Genet's The Maids must have been a shock. The play, based on the true story of two sisters who murdered their employer in the early 1930s, blends two kinds of provocation: it draws the audience into the violent, deranged fantasy world of the maids, and at the same time presents their madness as a product of class exploitation. Genet's original audience was being spooked and indicted at the same time...