Word: 1930s
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Another of the details that adds to the play is the style in which it is written. It resembles a radio serial show of the 1930s and 1940s. The same lines are repeated often by different characters, and pretty soon the order in which the lines were said is mixed up by the audience, smearing the time line of the action...
Anti-intellectual American public discourse always tends to marginalize the occasional systematic analysis of political phenomena as "conspiracy theory" or "ideology." However, few Germans perspicacious enough to perceive National Socialist efforts to consolidate power in the early 1930s were willing to publicly challenge Hitler's manipulation of electoral rules and political advocacy. American liberals should learn the lessons of the Weimar Republic and start questioning the institutional manipulations of their opposition. Without dramatic action, they risk being permanently disenfranchised by Newts' minions...
Hopper's realism had nothing to do with the prevalent realisms of the 1930s and '40s in American painting. That is to say, it had no persuasive content; it was entirely free from ideology, left or right. He had studied painting with Robert Henri, whose politics were romantically anarchist. But none of the political ferment of pre-World War I New York rubbed off on him, and none shows in his work. The only painting in this show that could be guessed to show an industrial worker is Pennsylvania Coal Town, 1947; and the bald man is posed like Millet...
...York City garmentworker, Salk was introduced to viral research as a medical student at New York University in the 1930s. After receiving his degree he moved to the University of Michigan to work with Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., one of his former professors. There he helped to develop commercial vaccines against influenza that were used by American troops during World...
...fight on a leveled killing field. If a serious strategy isn't tried, then as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke says, history will confirm the verdict so far: "The failure to respond properly in this tragedy is the greatest collective failure of the West since the 1930s...