Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mystic Chords of Memory trails off with a sense that America is not moving forward but pensively looking back. Kammen asserts that we have shown an increased interest in the past but a decreased knowledge of it. In the 1930s Lewis Mumford wrote, "Our past still lies ahead of us." The feeling one is left with after reading Kammen's dense and masterly work is that our future lies behind...
...declaring his long-shot challenge to George Bush for the Republican presidential nomination, conservative columnist Pat Buchanan toned down some of his reactionary ideas. But he retained enough traces of xenophobia to sound like a flashback from the isolationist 1930s. Launching his campaign in New Hampshire, where the first 1992 presidential primary is only nine weeks away, Buchanan demanded no less than America's retreat from the world at flank speed...
German-Soviet Military Cooperation in the 1920s and 1930s--with Aleksandr Nekrich, Russian Research Center senior fellow. In Coolidge Hall, room 4, at noon...
...unique strain of cotton was developed by Sally Fox, an entomologist who was originally looking for a naturally insect-resistant variety of cotton. She came across "coyote brown" cottonseeds that had been collected by the Department of Agriculture during the 1930s and '40s and launched a company called Natural Cotton Colours. Besides making the cotton into Natural jeans (retail price: about $27), Levi's is offering colored cotton shorts and jackets. Even the advertising attached to the jeans flogs the "natural" theme: it is printed on recycled denim. For the moment, Natural jeans are available in beige, brown and green...
...RADIO ROMANCE by Garrison Keillor (Viking; $21.95). The inventor and host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion turns in a loopy, endearing novel about the golden days of the talking box and some of those folks behind the microphones. It is the 1930s, and the staff at Minneapolis' fictional WLT can't believe that what they are doing is work and that such good times will last. They...