Word: 20s
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...disgraceful because he was so confessional--and so untrustworthy. Perhaps no artist in history has told his viewers more about his secret life; certainly none invented more about it. It still seems pretty weird, that inventory of impotence and aggression, of bizarre terrors and fetishes. But in the '20s and '30s it was beyond mere weirdness. Dali must have enjoyed the worst relations with his father of anyone else since little Oedipus. In 1930 his parent wrote a frantic letter to Dali's friend, film director Luis Bunuel, begging him to prevent the artist's coming anywhere near...
...wrong to suppose that the curiosity about the irrational that pervaded European culture in the '20s was an offshoot of surrealism; this puts the cart before the horse. The French film director Jean Epstein put the matter succinctly when he wrote of how "a host of techniques, from psychoanalysis to micro-physics, has begun to describe a world where...reason no longer always seems right." Cinema "encourages us to think in a dreamlike way...[it] slowly but surely filters the most basic of doubts throughout society: that of questioning the value of absolutes." Dali collaborated with Bunuel...
...That character is Daru, a bank employee in his late 20s who gets smart with a senior client and loses his job. He finds comfort in an affair with his best friend's wife, a homemaker named Mumtaz with a second career as an undercover journalist. We learn early on that our primary narrator (the first person switches frequently among the main characters) has been involved in a botched robbery, and is now on trial for murder. The evidence sounds damning, although we are not told the specifics of the case until much later in the book. The story...
Blair's enthusiasm is shared by altruist Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington, 84. He opened the School for Social Entrepreneurs in London two years ago and claims it is "for the high-minded and hardheaded." The school requires no academic background, and students' ages range from the 20s to the 70s with the majority of the 40 men and women graduates it has turned out so far in their 40s. It offers eight weeks of seminars to build skills in fund raising, marketing and accounting; students gain practical experience and test their ideas by working on a real project...
...late to get in the cyberharness for a position somewhere down the road at Oracle. This trend will only continue and even speed up as parents and children alike see the advantages in mastering change at an early age, when human beings are most adaptable, instead of in their 20s, when there's a risk that they'll be behind the curve. And it's in the national interest to encourage this, since one solution to supporting a populace top-heavy with retirees is putting the young to work as soon as possible...