Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resulted in "Kurv-On," "La Contour" and "Charm-On," which, says the Food and Drug Administration, "have about the same effect on the development or structure of the female breast as Smith Brothers cough drops." The "magic detector" of Dr. Albert Abrams, a roaring success in the '20s, popped up again last year in San Francisco. The detector enabled Dr. Abrams to "tune in on the electric vibration coming from a drop of blood and tell exactly what disease the patients were suffering from...
Peep Show. To Ethel Barrymore, first lady of the U.S. theater, the '20s were ugly-"Ugly fashions, ugly manners, ugly dances like the Charleston, and ugliest of all ... the self-pity of the young intellectuals, 'the Lost Generation.' " But she was spared, she said. She was too busy to really notice. Most of her shows were hits -Déclassée, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The Constant Wife, The Kingdom of God. After 14 years, her marriage to Russell G. Colt of the firearms family had ended in divorce, and she was devoting herself...
These shifts account for much that is fascinating in Author Loeb's memoirs. They also help to explain the seemingly endless appeal of the '20s. The Lost Generation had one abiding faith-that something would happen in the next 20 minutes that would utterly change one's life. From this great expectation sprang the wild parties, the free verse and the freer love. In the spirit of the '20s. changing partners meant changing patterns...
...Gatsby Syndrome. There is no counterpunching in The Way It Was, except for the implications of the title itself. Loeb, 67, has fashioned an independent career for himself as an economist, but in the '20s, his personal position was that of a man caught between two worlds. He had turned his back on the world of money, but had just enough left to be treated as an easy mark by many writers and artists. As a writer he had just enough talent to wonder if he had enough...
...love and memory are enough; he has fashioned a timeless frieze of the titans and the lotus eaters of the '20s. It is perhaps typical of Loeb that a decade later he was a devotee of technocracy. His generation could never escape the Gatsby Syndrome, the belief in "the green light" ever beckoning toward an elusively perfect tomorrow...