Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they do provide us with an utter escape from this world of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Natural Born Killers" through 1930s Hollywood grace, glamour and fancy footwork. They do remind us of an era that perhaps never even existed, save in a small RKO studio in the age of the truly silver screen...
Ever since the inception of the House system in the 1930s, the process by which first-years are assigned to upperclass houses has been gradually evolving. This week, Dean of the college L. Fred Jewett '57 will decide whether to take the final step in a long, slow march towards randomization. Dean Jewett's intentions are good, but if he decides to take this step he will be abandoning arguably the most fair and effective means of assignment: non-ordered choice...
When President Lowell founded the house system in the 1930s, he hoped that every house would be a microcosm of the College...
...however, the best blues is still decades old. Last year Columbia re-released King of the Delta Blues Singers, a superb collection of songs by blues trailblazer Robert Johnson. The original recordings of these performances in the 1930s were crudely done, and for this release, some of the sonic flaws have been smoothed over. Johnson died in 1938, but his songs-such as 32-20 Blues and Come on in My Kitchen-still radiate a devilish charm and plucky inventiveness. Newcomers may have taken the blues, but Johnson reminds us that they haven't gone very...
...Newt, the Washington evoked in Alan Brinkley's masterly The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Alfred A. Knopf; 371 pages; $27.50) seems like another planet. In the late 1930s and '40s, the word liberal was a badge of honor, not an epithet. Federal officials castigated "economic royalists," denounced predatory monopolists and seemed to regard the words free enterprise as a cloak for corporate exploitation. Big Business, not Big Government, was seen by Americans as the source of economic injustice...