Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aging (71) Molotov is in the middle of what may be Communism's most significant internal split since the Stalin-Trotsky quarrel in the '20s. On one side are ranged the dominant forces in the Soviet Presidium and most of the world's Communist parties, which support Khrushchev's avowed policies of "peaceful coexistence" with the capitalist nations, his campaign against Stalin's terroristic "cult of personality," and his efforts to raise the living standards of the Russian people. On the opposite side are Red China and its tiny, faraway ally, Albania; they are apparently...
...vivid images in Brecht on Brecht: Anne Jackson miming the simple glories of the world for her unborn son; Dane Clark doing an amusing Method depth-probe of which hat to wear for a four-minute part: Lotte Lenya conjuring up the ghostly, ghastly Berlin of the '20s and '30s in a raspy voice of tuneless authority. The Brecht on Brecht company of six actors is consistently bold, often astonishing, rarely commonplace. And doing Brecht at all is a salient rebuke to Broadway's timorous titans of trivia...
...become woman is the substance of this evocative new book by the French novelist who calls himself Vercors. The author frankly admits his device is a reverse switch on the metamorphosis m David Garnett's Lady Into Fox, one of the most popular English novels of the '20s in which a young husband finds his wife transformed into a small red fox ("He saw at once that his wife was looking at him from the animal's eyes...
...bury Red China so quickly. Just as the U.S. fed crumbling Russia during the famines ot the '20s, our allies such as Canada now nurse struggling China. The time will come when ridicule and derision will no longer be able to belittle China's might...
...customary tank of whisky sours. The Dolly Sisters made it a port of call, and so did Bill Tilden, Knute Rockne, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Vincent Sheean, Jack Dempsey, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. To casual travelers, and more importantly to American expatriates in the '20s and early '30s, Harry's New York Bar in Paris was a singular institution-a home away from home, a living shrine to U.S. booze, and the only place in Paris where a homesick American could buy a genuine...