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Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson focused on the varying social agendas of Black churches in the 1920s and 30s in his keynote address...
...short on diversity: both story subjects and models (the magazines are greatly concerned with clothes) are overwhelmingly white. The very fact of homosexuality is largely ignored. Three competitors are in their opening month or two: Details, a bratty, street- talking melange aimed at men in their 20s and early 30s; Men's Life, a smirky yet sentimental blend of National Lampoon and the Saturday Evening Post directed at fortyish suburban baby boomers; and M Inc., a merger of two prestigious but money-losing forerunners, Manhattan, inc. and M, that is meant, like its predecessors, for the well heeled and silver...
...generation that was caught up in the great debt liquidation of the '30s never got over it. If you had started work in the '50s on Wall Street, you would have heard a lot of talk about the Crash. Even 20 years later, it would have defied, never mind financial common sense, it would have defied known laws of physics to the bankers in the late '70s had anyone presented to them the proposition that an airline should be leveraged. "What? You are talking about a labor-intensive, highly unionized, highly cyclical commodity-driven business being leveraged...
...Indonesian diplomat in Tokyo dismisses this concern as exaggerated and self-serving. "Sure, we remember the militarism and imperialism associated with the Rising Sun in the '30s and '40s," he says. "But this is the '90s, and the threat is Saddam and his ilk. The Japanese are using our hang-ups as a cover for their...
Henry Miller, an expatriate Brooklynite in '30s Paris, wrote rambunctious novels about sex and saw Tropic of Cancer banned in his homeland for 30 years. Anais Nin, a Frenchwoman who befriended Miller, wrote intimate journals that remained expurgated long after their publication. Now American director Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff) has made a biography of the two writers and Miller's wife June. Surprise! Henry & June has been rated X by the industry's classification board...