Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is one year when the party politics of Massachusetts may run itself thin. "I think the number of Republicans winning this year will be surprising," King said. "Democrats in this election have been using 1940s-and-'50s-style politicking, rhetoric reminiscent of campaigns run in Mississippi when the Ku Klux Klan was powerful They use lots of divisiveness and fear. I can only hope the electorate is more in touch with the politics of today...
...talented people have worked very hard on Comes a Horseman. They may have worked a bit too hard. A liberal-minded western set in 1940s Montana, the film has been so carefully thought out that it seems cut and dried. There are fine performances, picturesque settings and noble sentiments on display, but there are no emotional or intellectual mysteries to hook the audience's imagination. Every level of the movie's meaning can be found right on its surface. Since that surface is only rarely bestirred by action or drama, Comes a Horseman ultimately comes to nothing...
Mydans and Demarest are among the first American journalists permitted to make such an extensive tourist's journey China. Mydans, who shot more than 100 rolls of film his visit, was amazed to discover how receptive the Chinese were to having their pictures taken. "In the 1940s " says Mydans, "most Chinese avoided being photographed because they believed that the camera catches the soul as well as the image; But today they are relaxed, willing and smiling in front of the camera...
...significance of this situation can be seen in statistics for the period 1920s-1940s. For example, although barely 10 per cent of blacks in college during these years attended white institutions, some 227 of the 525 blacks (43 per cent) who received doctoral degrees in these years got their grounding in success orientation at top-rank white schools such as Harvard. This was true, for example, of virtually all the black professional historians and social scientists of this period (for example, Carter Woodson--University of Chicago; Rayford Logan--Williams College; Allison Davis--Williams College; John Aubrey Davis--Williams College; Robert...
...around New York City, 9.75% in the Chicago area and 9.75% to 10% in Southern California. Many people, burned by the stock market, figure that real estate is their best hedge against inflation and a good long-term investment. The baby-boom kids of the mid-1940s are now setting up housekeeping; most of these young families have two earners, and they confidently assume the burden of double-digit mortgages on houses that often run to six figures. This house-hungry group could keep homebuilding strong for years...