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...have been a moment when Springsteen opened Joe Klein's luminous 1980 biography of Woody Guthrie. Nebraska, the solo album he released in 1982, has direct roots in Guthrie tunes like Pretty Boy Floyd, just as Springsteen's current populism has models in the blue-collar activism of the 1930s...
...considerable air miles. But the greatest distance Botero has traveled is from his dirt-poor beginnings. His father battled to keep his family afloat in Medellín - now Colombia's second-largest city (and a center of the country's cocaine business), but an isolated backwater during the 1930s and 1940s - by riding mules over rutted mountain tracks and peddling household items to villagers. He died when Botero was just 4, leaving his widow and three sons in such dire poverty that "it was very hard for my mother to feed us," Botero says. At 15, young Botero began...
...became Maxwell’s mentor, was only allowed to teach theory, since Martha Hill—the director of dance at Julliard—did not want her students picking up any of the provocative movements Holm had become known for at the Bennington Dance Festival in the 1930s. Since Holm technically could not instruct dance or choreography, Maxwell locked herself in a room with her teacher in order to show Holm her work...
Malkin partnered with his father-in-law, who had in the 1930s developed the practice of real estate syndication in New York, and has since become one of the most formidable forces in the city’s real estate industry. Wein & Malkin owns several large properties in midtown Manhattan, including the Empire State Building, purchased in 2002. Malkin and his associates bought the building for $57.5 million from Donald Trump, after several years of bitter legal battles with Trump and his co-investor, Hideki Yokoi...
Indeed, by the spring of 1953, McCarthy’s movement turned its focus toward Cambridge after Robert G. Davies ’29 gave testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Davies, who had taught at Harvard in the 1930s, said that he and 15 other faculty members had been a part of a communist cell...