Word: 1940s
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This exhibit, sponsored jointly by the Harvard University Art Museums and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, celebrates the 150th year of the dagguerotype. The MFA is presenting works from the 1930s and 1940s, and the Fogg exhibit presents those photographs from 1940 to the present. Photographers on view at the Fogg through Christmas vacation include Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Duane Michals, Aaron Siskind Weegee and Minor White...
...gods continue to smile on Nicholas Gage, a writer who knows how to tell a good story and, even better, has a good story to tell. His 1983 memoir, Eleni, pulled the reader into the pitiless Greek civil war of the late 1940s, when Communists fought to destroy the royalist government. Gage told how the Reds came to his mountain village to round up children for indoctrination in Albania. His mother resisted and smuggled him and three of his sisters to safety. For her defiance, Eleni was tortured, shot, and her body thrown into a ravine...
This exhibit sponsored jointly by the Harvard University Art Museums and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston celebrates the 150th year of the dagguerotype. The MFA is presenting works from the 1930s and 1940s, and the Fogg exhibit presents those photographers on view at the Fogg through Christmas vacation include Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Duane Michals, Aaron Siskind Weegee and Minor White...
Baker Boys is a spiritual heir of the typical romantic comedies of the 1940s--lots of music and wit--but with an '80s edge that at times seems to cut the viewer unfairly...
...lose any immediate family members in the genocide of the 1930s and 1940s, but many members of my extended family who had not followed the migratory path of my great-grandparents were killed in the Nazi concentration camps. The extent of the loss is overwhelming and is something I have trouble accepting...