Word: 1940s
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...completing a whole arts district. Abu Dhabi is planning a vast one. But long before there was a Bilbao effect - the revitalization of that scruffy Basque port by Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum there - New York had learned to use a cultural institution for urban renewal. In the 1940s and '50s, large areas of Manhattan's Upper West Side were slums, the turf of the warring street gangs that Leonard Bernstein made famous in West Side Story. But by the early 1960s, the various components of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the first cluster of arts buildings...
...Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest from Paris, visited Rava-Ruska for the first time, intrigued by tales he had heard from his grandfather as a boy. The older man had been a prisoner of war in the town in the early 1940s, and had told young Patrick that horrors had occurred there. When Desbois arrived in Rava-Ruska - a town of about 8,000 a few miles from the border with Poland - to learn what had happened, "it was like a black hole," he says. "There was nothing in the books." Desbois says the then mayor declined to divulge details...
...resulting voices of hundreds of witnesses provide a window into how a well-organized genocide could occur in these Ukrainian communities with no one choosing, or able, to stop it. That provokes profound questions about culpability and powerlessness, and the possibility of future genocides, which resonate far beyond 1940s Europe, say researchers like Shapiro. Explaining why it has taken so long to uncover such testimony, Shapiro says: "Frankly, no one ever went there before...
That makes me a bad person. But I must not be alone, because America has a new favorite Christmas movie. A Christmas Story, the 1983 tale about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), a 9-year-old in 1940s Indiana, and his lust for a Red Ryder air rifle, is everything Wonderful Life is not: satiric and myth-deflating, down to the cranky store Santa kicking Ralphie down a slide. ("You'll shoot your...
...four sculptures and one candelabra," said Marcos Monteiro, director general of Inepac, the Rio institute that oversees the state's cultural heritage. "It is getting worse as the market heats up and demands more pieces. There is a market for religious art and it has been growing since the 1940s. Now it is the hot trend...