Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Toward the end of his life, the novelist wrote these memoirs of the '20s in Paris when he was young and poor. The result is a poetic word picture of Paris, a loving one of his first wife, and waspish anecdotes of Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and especially the Fitzgeralds, who are remembered with malice...
Forgive & Forget. Much of Strauss's music has been firmly placed in the classic repertoire since the '20s, and outside Germany he had little need of a resurrection. World War I brought a ten-year lapse in the performance of Strauss in England, but World War II caused no lull in England or America. The Strauss of the Third Reich had been an old man, and after he was cleared by the denazification courts, it seemed only just to forgive and forget. Last year, in 175 orchestral performances of his works, Strauss became one of the most frequently...
...Prague in the '20s that Franz Kafka wrote his chilling allegories of men condemned to lingering deaths by a malevolent bureaucracy. "People didn't understand him 25 years ago," mused a Czech writer recently. "Now, after 16 years of Communism, they understand Kafka very well...
...haphazard crackling of aging oils is time's contemptuous comment on Mondrian's ice-pure ideals. He himself wrote in the mid-'20s that he preferred "a more or less mechanical execution" using "materials produced by industry," because de Stijl sought a rapport with the new technology that Van Gogh and other 19th century artists generally detested. In essence, the Stijlists felt that since the machine cannot make nature, it must if properly used make...
...Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th: the '20s...