Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARTHUR E. LINK New York City The Treaty Debate Sir: The signing of this "nonaggression" pact with the U.S.S.R. reminds me of one signed in the '20s-the Kellogg-Briand Pact. It did not deter the Japanese from building a fleet-and we sold them the scrap iron...
Heckel in his 20s was a bursting bomb. With Kirchner and Schmidt-Rottluff, he worked in a studio that had once been a cobbler's shop in the working-class district of Dresden. Since the three young artists were in revolt against convention, including the hiring of professional models, they painted their own girl friends in the nude; at any one time three or four of these young ladies might be milling in happy nakedness around the kerosene stove, on which a pot of coffee was always steaming. The artists worked at any hour of the day or night...
...early start in business (he went only as far as the eighth grade in school, but studied math nights as a teen-ager), Ludwig did not succeed in a big way until he was close to 40. The Depression washed out what little he had made in the '20s by buying war-surplus ships for charter, and a shipboard explosion left him with a painful back injury similar to President Kennedy's (it was cured in a risky operation a decade ago). In the mid-1930s, as the shipping market grew stronger, Ludwig broke through with a novel...
...Right to Contempt. When Camus dropped out of the Communist Party after a couple of years' membership in his early 20s, it was because he was repelled by all forms of absolutism. There was already stirring in him the great attack he would mount in The Rebel on Marxism, Communism, Hegelianism and all systems where the ends justify the means, where present-day cruelties are excused as part of an infinite plan. And he never could share the Marxist view that poverty was the ultimate evil, even though he was poor himself. He felt that a true love...
...Philosopher William James recalled the worst crisis in his life-a terrible depression in his late 20s that nearly drove him to suicide. Eventually James recovered by deciding that he must have "the will to believe" in a higher good even though he had no proof of it. Though he remained an agnostic because he felt that no religion had a corner on the truth, he became passionately interested in the religious experience itself-on the ground that the experience of religious conversion was a vital one for the human being. James ransacked history and searched among his contemporaries...