Word: 1940s
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...generation gap has widened drastically in recent years. Surveys conducted in the 1940s, '50s and '60s showed that young people were just as interested as their elders in major stories like the McCarthy hearings and the Vietnam War. But since the mid-'70s, the under-30 group has been tuning out. The result is a generation that votes less and is less critical of government and business. They are thus an "easy target of opportunity for those seeking to manipulate public opinion," the study warns...
...some cases, former owners have in fact been compensated. Since the late 1940s, the West German government has paid the equivalent of $5.4 billion in 535,000 settlements for left or lost property in East Germany. The average recipient pocketed just a few thousand marks. Under West German law, those who were compensated still have the right to regain property -- as long as they repay the money they received...
PRESTON STURGES: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER (PBS, July 2, 9 p.m. on most stations). Hollywood's brilliant burnout, who created a string of comedy classics in the 1940s, then faded into oblivion, is profiled in the first American Masters segment of the summer. If only for the wonderful clips, a don't-miss...
Ever since its development in the 1940s, radiocarbon dating has been a vital tool for historians and paleontologists trying to pinpoint the ages of everything from ancient animal bones to prehistoric human settlements to Egyptian mummies. By measuring the decay of the natural radioactive isotope carbon 14, which almost all organisms ingest while they are alive, scientists can estimate how long it has been since an animal or plant died...
...article on art forgeries ((ART, May 7)), Robert Hughes described Hans van Meegeren, who specialized in pseudo Vermeers, as a "talentless and paranoid academic hack." I knew Van Meegeren in the 1940s in the Netherlands when I was a teenager, and his portrait of my father now hangs in my home. He was undoubtedly paranoid. However, he was also very gifted, as numerous paintings and drawings can testify. To judge artists only by the imitations they make is to conclude a priori that they are not original in their...