Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With fascination and with deep concern the U.S. watched Senate investigators unfolding an ever-spreading picture of corruption and abuse in the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Not since the investigation of the finagling tycoons of the '20s and '30s had so many serious questions been raised against men in a position to wield great influence on the U.S. economy...
...seven years during the late '20s and early '30s, the high-stepping bay seldom knew defeat in the show ring. When she did lose, she was always in double harness, her talent slowed by a teammate. Going through her paces alone, she had no peer. All told, the "Million Dollar Hackney Mare" won about $25,000 in prize money, including $2,800 worth of silver plate and a trophy room full of cups and ribbons. Crowds cheered her entry into show rings as if she were Sarah Bernhardt...
...show was less than a week old when something like the excitement of the '20s erupted. Storming the gallery, a band of young, self-styled "reactionary nihilist intellectuals" who call themselves the Jarivistes flung handbills riotously into the gallery. "We Jarivistes advise the Dadaists, surrealists and consorts that the reign of minus is over . . . Long live poetry!" Then, grabbing Object to Destroy, they were gone-but with Dadaist Man Ray puffing after them, crying: "They're stealing my painting!" Not far from the gallery, the Jarivistes stopped and set down the one-eyed metronome. One of them hauled...
...will find yourself without money, but you will make your living from women, and it is by them that you will succeed." His family laughed, moved to Paris and tried to train him to be a diplomat. Instead, Christian plunged into the arty life of Paris of the '20s. Velvet-collared, bowler-hatted and rich, Christian hobnobbed with advanced musicians like Poulenc and Satie, artists like Jean Cocteau, Christian Berard and Salvador Dali, opened an art gallery with his father's financial backing...
...literature of every decade offers a classic confrontation which is both symbol and caricature of the prevailing conflict of ideas. In the books of the '20s the disenchanted and emancipated young confronted their hypocritical elders. In the '30s the worker at the barricades shook his fist at the bloated capitalist. In the '40s the man of freedom locked wills with the totalitarian zealot. In the '50s the basic confrontation - which all along has preoccupied writers, including W. H. Auden, Graham Greene. T. S. Eliot-may well be that of the psychiatrist...