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...visiting professor, and then returned to a permanent position in 2001 as chair of the music department. In her critical writing and in her classes, she emphasizes the connection between music and social movements, specifically connecting jazz and civil rights. “In the 1930s and 1940s, jazz was viewed as entertainment, less than ‘art music,’” she says. “ People like Charlie Parker were part of a legitimization process going on in musical terms. They challenged the idea that African-American music was less.” Along...
...Lady Erlynne (Helen Hunt, “As Good As It Gets”) makes her way down to the Italian Riviera and disrupts the marital bliss of the genteelly tedious Windemeres. Gossip, spying through binoculars, and mistaken identities ensue. It’s a big zany ride through 1930s British society, complete with doddering alcoholic Brits for comic relief. Unfortunately, it all ends up being rather ungainly. This harmless movie won’t provoke any violent reactions, but it is a pitiful tribute to Wilde’s writing. In a desperately blatant attempt to make this film...
...White House, concerned about a growing wave of leftist victories in Latin American presidential elections, insists Chavez is a would-be dictator sowing instability in the region. Last week, as U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld even likened Chavez?s rise to Hitler?s in the 1930s, Venezuela accused a U.S. naval attach? of spying and expelled him from the country; a few days later the U.S. expelled Alvarez?s chief of staff...
...star in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, about 21,000 light-years from earth, close to the core of the Milky Way. At that distance, even its home star is invisible, so astronomers resorted to a sort of cosmic optical illusion, first proposed by Einstein in the 1930s, to detect it. Einstein pointed out that since massive objects bend light rays, a star could act as a sort of lens, focusing and magnifying the light of a more distant star passing behind it. In his original paper, Einstein doubted that such a thing would ever be seen...
...1930s: Auto sales drop; labor unrest rises, as does the U.A.W.; Congress passes labor-relations laws as part of the New Deal...