Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BUCK ROGERS belongs to the past Science fiction the United States has finally struggled to a state of respectability, shedding the dime-store pulp magazine image it acquired in the 20s and '30s. Gone are the lurid magazine covers of space ships, ray guns and over-endowed Galactic princesses; the romantic, swashbuckling days of Depression science fiction have passed, replaced by serious literary efforts--carefully written and structured novels and short stories...
...problem for artists who did not want to follow the usual pattern of expatriation was how to be both modern and at the same time American. Most modern American art from the teens and '20s had a homemade, do-it-yourself, rule-of-thumb look. Arthur Dove's was no exception, and some of his paintings, particularly in the mid-'30s, poignantly suggest an imagination hobbled by its lack of prototypes. But a certain naiveté and brusqueness were, in any case, bound up with Dove's sense of aesthetic probity. It was part of what...
Lethal Success. Such desires, explains Jong, "were a fantasy of my 20s." Now 32, she has outgrown them. "The beautiful men on the street are probably very boring to talk to." Jong grew up in a Jewish household in Manhattan, attended Barnard College and earned a master's degree in English literature from Columbia. Both Jong and Isadora are poets; both had brief marriages to fellow students, then married American-born Chinese psychiatrists. Most of the novel, says Jong, is "an interweaving of fiction with reality...
Male undergraduates these days expect of themselves a level of ability in relationships that I don't think any man ten years ago in his early 20s expected of himself. Then he was just supposed to be dominant and masculine and kind of tough and not show his feelings much and dictate what he wanted and that was what women wanted. That's a stereotype, but there's a lot of truth...
Some of this seems more than faintly reminiscent of the '20s, when William Jennings Bryan faced Clarence Darrow to prosecute Darwin's evolutionary theories in the Scopes "monkey trial." What is the reason for the revival today of such fierce fundamentalism? Perhaps the cause is an increased need for spiritual security in a troubled world. It may also derive from the current distrust of science and disillusionment with rationalism. This mood may account, too, for the Bible's growing popularity among people of all spiritual stripes?or none at all. Translated into 1,526 languages, it is being bought...