Word: 1940s
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Sarah Waters has switched gears. Her latest novel, The Night Watch, is a departure from her first three: instead of her reader-tested Victorian settings, she's jumped to the 1940s. Her mainstay of one or two central protagonists has evolved into an ensemble of characters. Oh, yeah - and the novel's narrative moves backwards in time. "It did feel like a leap of faith," reflects Waters, 39, eating satsumas in her publisher's London office. Her manner is almost shy, but she exudes a palpable self-possession. "I thought," she says, with a hint of wistfulness to her smile...
...petition circulated by a group of Harvard and MIT faculty, students, and other affiliates, urging divestment from Israel and from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel. This call for divestment was part of a much broader political initiative by the Arab League, which has since the 1940s declared a boycott of “Jewish products and manufactured goods,” ordering all Arab “institutions, organizations, merchants, commission agents and individuals...to refuse to deal in, distribute, or consume Zionist products or manufactured goods.” (The terms “Jewish?...
...DIED. MOIRA SHEARER, 80, Scottish ballet dancer, actress and writer famed for her role as the ballerina in the 1948 classic The Red Shoes; in Oxford, Britain. Flame-haired and strikingly beautiful, Shearer danced iconic parts for London's Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet in the 1940s. But she popularized the art with Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a girl forced by her shoes to dance until she died. "Here was this apparition," recalled Shearer's husband, writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy, "with ... a figure like an hour-glass, blue-green...
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...1940s: In the U.S., Ford factories, including its famed Willow Run plant, churn out tanks, cannons and planes for the war effort...