Word: 1930s
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...Harvard students and surrounding communities. Yet there is another motivating factor for individual service which often gets neglected. "Ideologically" motivated volunteers respond to an overarching political, religious, or ethical understanding that dictates concern for the less fortunate or a desire to alter fundamental social structures. Last popular during the 1930s, ideological motivations have become less and less plausible for leaders in public service...
Richard III, as conceived by actor Ian McKellen and director Richard Loncraine, is one bold customer. Here is Shakespeare's upper-class mass murderer reimagined as a clever fascist in the court of Edward VIII. The 1930s was a decade of ruthless strongmen, in both European politics and Hollywood movies. Gangsters, mesmerizing in their amoral ambition, were the men of the moment; they lent a sick thrill to the front page and entertainment section. This Richard is such a fellow, Hitler as Scarface. From the opening titles, which explode in a blast of artillery, to the closing image of Richard...
ALTHOUGH I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PACIfist, I feel that President Clinton is right. He had no choice but to send troops to help end the massacre in Bosnia. If the U.S. had taken steps against Hitler in the late 1930s, perhaps the lives of millions of innocent people might have been saved. Cruel dictators must be stopped before they damage the world. We must learn that all people have to live in peace with one another. HANNA CASSEL Napa, California...
Holbrooke was, in some ways, an obvious choice. He, after all, had called inaction over Bosnia "the greatest collective failure of the West since the 1930s." Moreover, he had spent three decades, first in the State Department, then on Wall Street, honing his skills as a diplomat and a dealmaker. Still, some found it surprising that he should be picked for this critical assignment. Over the years, he had won a reputation for fierce ambition and abrasive self-promotion. His ego and aggressiveness, it was said, did not suit the delicate job of constructing a Balkan peace settlement...
...1930s and early 40s, James Davis began working with plastic, fascinated with the new material's ability to reflect pools of light. Experimenting with this quirky, technicolor glare, Davis created films which shift from the geometry of work like Fischinger's towards a more mysterious use of light. His 1961 "Death and Transfiguration" uses light to create twisting forms which play over the similarly twisting torso of a man It's a strange, shifting film, unlike much else in the retrospective...