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...live, work, shop - even drive - on the water? Builders in the Netherlands aren't thinking houseboats, but wood-and-aluminum constructions that float atop huge pieces of polystyrene encased in concrete. Six prototype homes have been towed to Ijburg, near Amsterdam. Imported from Canada, the concept dates to the 1930s, when lumberjacks built shacks on floating timber they couldn't sell, say developers Ooms Avenhorn. Another 250 houses - to sell for at least 3220,000 - are in the pipeline, as are 12 to 16 more developments. Even more ambitious are plans to apply the technology to roads...
...says Rentschler, Heimatfilms of the 1930s “became a vehicle for privileging native soil, seeing native space as having to be protected from outsiders”—but by the 1950s, “the homeland was no longer about the same militant national identity, but about a psychological need to deal with upheaval” and create a new identity...
Throughout his life Delaney struggled with mental illness and poverty. In the 1930s and 1940s, the artist’s close friends Ella Fitzgerald and James Baldwin inspired him with their musical and literary works. The Sert show includes several of the cityscapes of New York painted during this time...
This same pattern of weakness and ineffectiveness was repeated throughout the mid-1930s, as Hitler’s illegal rearmament and militarization of the Rhineland were sadly tolerated. While the League was compelled to act when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia in the summer of 1935, the result was only limited “sanctions”—(sound familiar?)—on the Fascist government. Britain and France, charged with formulating the League’s punishment of Italy, had economic and geo-political interests that discouraged them from taking a stronger stance...
Iraq’s continued evasion of its responsibility to the U.N. is no different, theoretically, than Hitler’s and Mussolini’s persistent repudiations of the League. But just like in the 1930s, several countries today appear perfectly willing to let the world’s leading international organization be mocked and disobeyed. For the French government, securing lucrative oil contracts is apparently more important than removing the threat posed by Saddam’s weapons of mass murder. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, meanwhile, rode to victory in September’s national election...