Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, mining brought prosperity to Butte. Employment was high, amenities abundant; because of the availability of copper wire, most houses in Butte had electricity by 1890. But the cost was high. Pollution fouled streams and scarred mountainsides. By the mid-1940s, Butte's high-grade ore thinned out, forcing the company to increasingly undermine the town in its search for copper. By 1955, when the decreasing quality of the ore made even those operations uneconomical, Anaconda turned to cheaper open-pit mining...
...corruption, about resistance to the hard sell and the strong arm. Those are difficult matters to deal with, and Richards and Goodman avoid them. Goodman wrests a standard mystery plot from the book that Chandler considered his best. Richards uses it as an excuse for a sort of 1940s masquerade. Watching this movie has approximately the same effect as being locked overnight in a secondhand clothing store in Pasadena. There is an awful lot of dust and, after a while, the dummies look as if they are moving...
...century playing the detective in a drama he devised from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. There are also striplings who claim, in their innocence, that Peter Cushing's impersonation of the Great Gumshoe in the 1960s was quite acceptable. But anyone who was around in the 1940s knows that the detective's only authorized dramatic representative was Basil Rathbone.* With his incisive features and voice, Rathbone was one of the few actors of his time who actually appeared capable of complex deductive reasoning. As for Nigel Brace's Dr. Watson, he was every...
Shultz says the idea of the alumni college started floating around in the early 1940s, because it seemed "stupid not to use the University's academic facilities" to bring the alumni into the University community. At that time, however, he says the faculty and the administration weren't interested because they didn't feel comfortable with the alumni...
Robert Hughes comments: "Kline was a figurative painter to the end of the 1940s. The point, however, is that Wolfe presented Kline 'in the '30s' as a party hack, 'dutifully cranking out' paintings of social-realist cliches at the dictation of unnamed 'drillmasters.' No such body of work by Kline exists. To support his thesis, all Wolfe can produce is one picture from the 40s-and even it is too expressionist to fit the strict canon of social realism...