Word: 1930s
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...Death of Bessie Smith. By Edward Albee. Pride clashes with prejudice when the staff of a 1930s Memphis hospital denies treatment to the legendary blues singer, victim of an automobile crash. Theater at the Union...
...Death of Bessie Smith. By EdwardAlbee. Pride clashes with prejudice when the staffof a 1930s Memphis hospital denies treatment tothe Legendary blues singer, victim of anautomobile crash. Theatre at the Union...
Considering that in the 1930s and early '40s, women were certainly not on an equal par with men in jobs or societal standing, the women he played against were remarkably aggressive and witty. They would be considered so even by today's standards...
Although Lebwohl called today's studentpopulation "indifferent" to the atrocities, hesaid there is a precedent for the relief effort.In 1930s, Harvard students sent funds toBarcelona, which was then under siege by fascists...
...taking office in December 1992, he has dismissed the "improvisations" of free-enterprise thinkers like Yegor Gaidar as "poorly thought-out experiments," taken a verbal slap at "market romanticism" and disparaged privatization by comparing it to Stalin's forced collectivization, which killed more than 10 million peasants during the 1930s. As for the Prime Minister's policy initiatives, International Monetary Fund officials weighing whether to unlock $1.5 billion in aid to Russia are most disturbed by his willingness to pump increasingly worthless rubles into inefficient state enterprises. Only last week, Chernomyrdin's new team hammered out a bailout plan that...