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There were tragedies and missteps in the decade, but before you pass judgment, please do your homework. Ask the Chinese in Nanking and the Jews of Poland and Russia what they thought of the 1930, the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki of the 1940s, the U.S. soldiers in the Hanoi Hilton of the 1960s--not to mention all Americans of the 1860--and the list goes...
...more than 60 years, the UAW's top leadership has blocked attempts to permit union members to vote directly for the union presidency. Rather, as the UAW's new designated nominee, King has the support of the union executive board, which has picked the UAW presidents since the late 1940s through series of closed caucuses. (See the worst business deals...
...sent a collage of photos, newspaper clippings, and paragraphs of text extolling the virtues of “Froggy the Gremlin,” who, as far as I can tell, was a precursor to Kermit the Frog for TV shows in the 1940s. Apparently, “in a puff of smoke, Froggy appeared, laughing, hopping from side to side, that fixed and evil grin on his face.” I encourage you to Google around to find out more...
...Gorky devoted himself to a complete, nearly self-annihilating immersion in the work of one master after another. Czanne, Picasso, Miró, Lger - he sometimes channeled their voices like a ventriloquist's dummy, but he learned their language. His breakthrough came in the 1940s, partly by way of his contact with the Surrealists in wartime exile in New York City, especially Andr Breton and Roberto Matta. Gorky had been borrowing Surrealist imagery for years, and he flourished in their company. It was through Matta that he renewed his interest in the Surrealist notion of automatism, a means...
...homage. From his early covers of Woody Guthrie ballads to his current stint as a satellite-radio DJ, Dylan has been as much an innovator as an advocate for American musical tradition. For Dylan and any other kid growing up in the 1940s and '50s, Christmas songs as interpreted by Bing Crosby and his fellow crooners were folk music. These new versions of such pop classics as "Silver Bells" and "The Christmas Song" may alternate between croaks and moos, but they're reminders that a Christmas LP was a rite of passage into the mainstream for early rockers like Elvis...