Word: 20s
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Different media have different thresholds for scandal. Controversy in the movies might mean making a film that glorifies one of the nation's most repugnant pornographers. Controversy in literature might mean writing a memoir about the affair you had with your father when you were in your 20s. In television, which functions not just as a business and debased art form but also as an increasingly fractured nation's de facto mirror of itself, the threshold is much lower. Controversy could mean starring in a sitcom as a gently scatterbrained former bookstore owner who, after years of adult floundering, reluctantly...
Inspired by and largely based on writings done by people in their 20s and early 30s, Cantata 2000 is, in Swados's words, a "circus of words." She hopes it portrays "what it's like to be twenty-something and live as the millenium is being pushed in your face...
...addition to their brains, the nuns have provided Snowdon with a wealth of biochemical and behavioral information-- blood samples, test scores and even autobiographical sketches written in their teens and 20s. Last year, Snowdon and his colleagues caused a stir when they found a tantalizing if tenuous connection between the nuns' schoolgirl writing styles and the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's later on. Out of a group of 25 nuns who died between 1991 and 1995, the researchers reported, those whose writing samples contained the lowest density of ideas per paragraph were the most likely to develop Alzheimer's. Could...
...does, however, make a convincing argument that the blows of rapid economic change fall most heavily on those least able to absorb them, and that it makes sense, both economically and politically, to protect those people. He reminds readers that the economic dislocation of the '20s and '30s opened the way for the rise of fascism. One need only observe the growing strength of the far right in Europe or the strange appeal of ultranationalists in the U.S. to see how the ruthless efficiency of capitalism can create social unrest in tandem with wealth...
...Chambers' story is larger and more interesting than just that event. For a brief, hilarious season early on, at Columbia University, he campaigned for the 1920 Republican vice-presidential nominee, Calvin Coolidge; but in the mid-'20s he pinballed leftward and joined the Communist Party, animated by an anguished convert's zeal. A melodramatically ernste Mensch (serious man), as he liked to say, Chambers began as a useful party "literate," hacking away as a foreign-news reporter for the dreary Daily Worker, contributing to the New Masses...