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...originally the security arm of the Nazi Party. When it came under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler in 1929, the SS began to expand; by the war's end almost 1 million men had passed through its ranks. The Waffen combat units were formed in the late 1930s. It was members of the Totenkopf ("Death Head") SS who served as guards and executioners at the concentration camps, wearing black caps and skull-and-crossbone insignia on their collars. The double S was rendered in a lightning-bolt design that, along with the swastika, became an emblem of the Nazi regime...
Jarrell's poems were first published in the mid-1930s, when he was still a student at Vanderbilt University. But it was his ferocious reviews of other poets, particularly in the New Republic and the Nation, that made his name and exacting standards widely known. Deciding that Conrad Aiken had become a lazy poet, Jarrell wrote, "He seems as much at ease as Merlin pulling a quarter from a schoolboy's nose." The best of Jarrell's contemporaries learned to fear his scorn but value his insights. Said Karl Shapiro after Jarrell had roughed him up in print: "I felt...
...Take Me Along, folded the day after it opened. The survivors are the umpteenth revival of The King and I and two April entries, both pummeled by reviewers: Leader of the Pack, a rock nostalgia show, and Grind, a $4 million-plus spectacle set in a 1930s burlesque hall. They are to be joined this week by the season's last hope, Big River, an adaptation of Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
Whereas Soviet artists produced propaganda that directly supported Stalin’s regime, Italian literati during the 1920s and 1930s adopted a more hands-off, apathetic approach to the rise of Mussolini’s fascism. While many of Italy’s artists and intellectuals were in theory “liberal,” meaning sympathetic to the democratic monarchy, “liberal writers were totally absent from the political scene,” said Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile. “They did not think it was their business to meddle...
Harvard has not seen a president come under such faculty fire as Summers since the late 1930s, when then-University President James B. Conant ’14 faced heavy criticism over his denial of tenure to two economics tutors as well as his broader policy of making the university more meritocratic...