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...throughout the 1960s and '70s -- Hammer circulated tirelessly between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the corporate jet, arranging "cultural exchanges" that were more show than tell. Somehow one could not forget, when viewing the eclectic arrays he promoted as "treasures of the Soviet Union," how in the '30s he and his brother Victor had astutely brought a freighter load of furniture and bibelots from Russian flea markets and hotel lobbies and sold it as "the Romanov treasure...
...reshapes character. The legacy of World War I defined the Western peoples for 20 years. The sense of order, optimism and patriotism that marked the Edwardian age died in the trenches of Verdun. In their place arose the pacifism, the nihilism, the psychic cubism of the '20s and '30s...
...Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes. Child abuse was not discovered by if- it-bleeds-it-leads TV-news editors. Suffering innocents can also be found in literature, extending from Medea to Oliver Twist. Set in the Midwest during the '30s and '40s, this memoir of how Rhodes and his brother survived mistreatment by a hateful stepmother should become a minor classic...
...little bit" aware as the Nazi armies overran Europe. "But the whole concept of the real atrocities and the things now that history so vividly records weren't driven home every single day to America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that's not any of our business.' There's a parallel there for what some feel about the Persian Gulf today: let somebody else figure this out. And it's my view that nobody can, except the United...
Today : mostly sunny, high 40 to 45. Tonight: becoming cloudy, 30 percent chance of light rain toward sunrise. Mild, lows in the mid 30s. Tomorrow: cloudy, rain likely, high 45 to 50. Chance of rain 70 percent...