Word: 1930s
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...through the decades. The 1930s' Scottsboro Boys (race, sex, the myth of endangered white female virtue, which was always the Southern white man's reverse rape projection). The 1940s' Alger Hiss case (emergent cold war and its anxieties of communist infiltration). In the 1960s, the Chicago Seven trial (Vietnam, the crisis of American authority); in the 1970s, Watergate. In the 1980s, insider trading...
...aging and obsessively punctilious butler named Stevens, sets out in 1956 on a motoring trip; he wants to persuade Miss Kenton, a former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to come back and work for the house's new American owner. But as Stevens remembers the good old days, the 1930s, his dry reserve and matter-of-fact tone are threatened by a troubling perception: perhaps his devotion to Lord Darlington, later disgraced for having tried to appease the Nazis, was misplaced. Near the end, when he briefly weeps for his wasted life, the pathos is shattering...
...gloves and catchers' masks. He is also the co-author, along with LIFE managing editor Daniel Okrent, of Baseball Anecdotes (Oxford University Press; 1989). In that compendium, now considered a classic, the authors called Lou Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 consecutive games during the 1920s and 1930s "unapproachable." Wulf does deserve credit for spotting Ripken's ability, if not his potential as an endurance champ, back in 1982, when the rookie was still in spring training. "He'll make people notice him," Wulf wrote at the time, quoting an Orioles coach...
...freshest production is a real oddball: one of the few stagings ever done of Benjamin Britten's first opera, Paul Bunyan. Written to a libretto by W.H. Auden shortly after the composer and poet came to America as pacifists in the late 1930s, the work was conceived as a comic-populist valentine to their new country, one that would be suitable for school productions. Singable it is: the stream of songs and choruses exploits and gently parodies everything from American folksiness to Broadway jazziness, from Italian opera to Victorian ballads...
...membership to the countries of Central Europe on the grounds that "We've got time. If it's really 'Weimar Russia,' then we're only at 1932. NATO can enlarge when the threat gets real." The quotation incompletely expresses my views. The democracies did not resist Hitler in the 1930s until it was too late to avoid a terrible war. But a better indicator of how the West would respond to the kind of Russian misconduct that would justify the expansion of NATO is the experience of the cold war. Having learned the lesson of the Hitler era, the democracies...