Word: fermentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferment. The nation had half forgotten the kind of convulsions with which it had been seized in the years after World War I. The U.S. had not only been hellbent to shake off the past, but full of a kind of callow hunger for sensation. The flapper who bobbed her hair, bound her breasts and wore knee-length skirts was almost duty-bound to get "blotto" by drinking gin from hip flasks. "I want to live my own life," cried the '20's movie heroine, and millions tried to imitate her. Literature was full of ferment, religion...
...itself face to face with a question of policy: on what conditions shall permission to hold rallies be granted? This is a problem that has needed consideration for some time, and if its increased urgency at present can bring about a codification of the College's position, undergraduate political ferment will have brought about at least one positive accomplishment...
...Washington, before a House Labor subcommittee, broken-nosed Herbert K. Sorrell, whose A.F.L. Conference of Studio Unions has had Hollywood cinemakers in strike ferment for three years, denied over & over that he had ever been a Communist Party member. Shown a C.P. card signed "Herbert Stewart" (Sorrell's mother's name was Stewart), he cried "fake," but admitted that it looked like his handwriting. An expert swore that...
Kracauer divides German film history into three main periods. The first (1918-24) was a period of fierce mental ferment; during those years, the German film attained its highest artistic maturity (Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), and the screen was a battleground for most of the conflicting anxieties and desires of the German mind...
...atheist," he wrote Chekhov, "although I felt it, but now . . . I know that he is indeed an atheist and a confirmed one. Am I right?" Gorky, godless himself, was hardly right, but in many respects he saw Tolstoy plain-his "misty preaching" rising from "the unhealthy ferment of the old Russian blood," the man himself "madly and tormentingly beautiful . . . a man of the whole of mankind...