Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumption. Moreover, Fallows may give too much weight to the dreams of an elderly elite. Perhaps Japan's "corporatists" do want to dominate the world's high-tech industries, but that doesn't mean their success is guaranteed, any more than the success of Japan's militarists in the 1930s was a certainty...
...illegal immigrant from Rotterdam in 1926. He was a gifted draftsman who had already achieved a high level of academic training. But he gradually learned to connect that to a modernist syntax, fusing the line of Ingres and the fragmentation of the antique torso to 1930s Picasso and his American derivatives like Arshile Gorky. Seated Figure (Classic Male), 1940, shows the early stage of this process to perfection. The forms through which De Kooning reached abstraction were always connected to an earlier kind of abstraction, that of academic drawing...
...troubled by a thought he was still voicing decades later: "How long do you think it'll be before they stop calling me a goddam bootlegger?" Seeking respectability and reacting against the strong anti-Semitism of the Canadian elite, he plunged into Jewish affairs, raising huge sums in the 1930s and '40s to help the Zionist founders of what became Israel. His son Edgar Sr., who became head of Seagram's U.S. operations in 1957 and of the whole company on Mr. Sam's death in 1971, has continued that tradition. Though he is still chairman of Seagram, Edgar...
...Robert Oppenheimer, I urge strong caution in accepting without serious scrutiny Pavel Sudoplatov's account of Oppenheimer's "contributions" to Soviet nuclear weapons development ((BOOK EXCERPT, April 25)). It is a matter of historical record that Oppenheimer was interested in a variety of left-wing causes during the 1930s and early '40s and that friends and family belonged to the American Communist Party for brief periods. It is also true that the Soviets were able to penetrate the wartime Manhattan Project -- and particularly Los Alamos. Klaus Fuchs is without doubt their greatest success in that regard. But it is also...
...Buffalo there is merriment but no melancholy. The translation provides for commedia improvisations and further toys with the original by casting the actors both as the Marivaux characters and as a 1930s British touring troupe performing the play. The evening is fun. But it reveals little of why Lamos and others think Marivaux may be genuinely great...