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...Both sides fought the Japanese who attacked China in 1937, before resuming their civil war once Japan had been beaten. Madame Chiang's heyday came during World War II, when she came to the U.S. as her husband's spokesman and made a rousing address to the U.S. Congress appealing for help against the Japanese. A charismatic intellectual who challenged traditional ideas of silent and subservient Chinese women, she took a leading role in nationalist politics, running Chiang's air force at one point. As icons of Western-friendly modernity and of unbending resistance to the excesses of Maoism, Madame...
...Quad, residents, particularly male athletes who had been relocated to the Quad to rectify the gender imbalance in the early 1970s , demanded equality with the river houses. Once-a-day shuttle service was introduced in 1973, and the QRAC was built in 1978. But the Quad’s heyday as a bohemian haven ended with the controversial Fox Plan of 1977, which introduced a ‘limited choice’ system by which students could list their top three residential choices. Then-Dean of the College John B. Fox ’59 instituted the plan in order...
Although this look has already returned once since its 80s heyday, it desperately needs to stick around for good. There is nothing sexier than a successful woman who looks like a Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker...
...that Stalin's was conducted by a totalitarian state and used to promote a single product - communist ideology." The show's 200 paintings, posters and films trace the development of Soviet "agit-art," from its inception in 1918 among the painters of the Russian avant-garde to the heyday of Socialist Realism in the 1930s and 1940s. One reason it became so effective was that, especially in the early years, it was artist-driven. There was oversight and censorship by apparatchiks, of course, but it was the artists - impassioned by the Bolshevik Revolution, holding high office themselves, and exploring...
Which represents the true 1970s: Peter Bogdanovich or Peter Brady? Chinatown or Hong Kong Phooey? Was the decade a wacky jag of smiley faces and bell-bottoms or a daring heyday of nonconformism and creativity? You can decide this month when the two 1970s duke it out in two weirdly complementary cable specials...