Word: 1930s
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Ozick also read "A Drugstore in Winter," a memoir of her childhood in the Bronx in the 1930s...
...when he reached the Senate. DIED. XIA YAN, 94, prominent literary figure in China's film, theater and book circles, whose communist credentials did not protect him from persecution during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Xia is considered the grandfather of China's grandly propagandistic, procommunist movies, notably his 1930s screenplays of such epics as Wild Torrent and Twenty Four Hours in Shanghai. Named Vice Minister of Culture in 1954, Xia continued producing screenplays well into the 1960s. Nonetheless, during the Cultural Revolution, he was severely criticized and imprisoned for more than eight years for ``revisionist'' ideas...
...Croce, her essay is nothing if not a declaration of independence from victim art. Some of her supporters have pointed out that feelings of pity or guilt can be used by artists as a bribe, just as an unearned emotion of political solidarity was often used in the 1930s. But novelist Reynolds Price, who has survived spinal cancer and last year published an acclaimed memoir about his experience (A Whole New Life), wonders if Still/Here represents a new body of art that will be increasingly hard to ignore. "There are a tremendous number of people who survive in ways that...
...detailed portrait of the grade-school dropout and vainglorious, third-rate ex-hoofer who, more than any other gossipist, invented the modern celebrity industry. His syndicated "colyums" and brassy, red-baiting broadcasts to "Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea" shaped U.S. lowbrow culture for the 1930s and '40s. When he died unlamented in 1972, Winchell was a lonely and bilious has-been, still clinging to the shabby remnants of his column...
Edsall says Mayr was instrumental in incorporating natural selection into contemporary evolutionary theory during the 1930s...