Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after the FBI visited, all that changed. Diamond had joined the communist party as a student at Johns Hopkins in the early 1940s, and had remained a member for almost a decade...
Sheldon had a cold, dark side, says Robert R. Holt, a former psychology professor at new York University, who met Sheldon in the 1940s...
...movement, with the idea that all movement is dance." Indeed, the trio of works is unified by its defiance of convention. Cunningham's "Breakers" features dancers in sharp and unpredictable poses, arms, legs and torsos working in stark juxtaposition. In "Company B," Taylor evokes the swing era of the 1940s, while poking fun at characteristic swing moves with its frantically shifting pace. Tharp's "In the Upper Room" combines modern, classical, even aerobic dance elements with exhiliarating boldness and energy...
...1940s the Vanguard was a launching pad for black folk singers like Leadbelly, Josh White and Harry Belafonte. Pete Seeger arrived with the Weavers in 1949. That year Gordon married a woman who was an ardent jazz fan, and by the end of the '50s the Vanguard had become the world's premier showcase for modern jazz at the highest level. Gordon had a genius for discovering talent very early, recalls his 72-year-old widow Lorraine, who has run the club since he died in 1989. "That's why people like Wynton Marsalis still come back every year...
Professor Bernard Wolfman said of his formercolleague: "From the early 1940s to his death in1984, every major piece of federal tax legislationcame to fruition only after the views of StanleySurrey were heard and considered, sometimesendorsed and sometimes...