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1939: not much to dance about
What was America like in 1939? Between then and today, there was a tremendous anatomy of change, and a good many conditions that prevailed then seem odd today. The United States was on the threshold of a new era, but … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amos 'n' Andy radio show, Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Semitism America 1930's, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charles Lindbergh, David Turner JPost blog, Fritz Kuhn Bund, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, NAACP 1930's, Philip Roth, Roosevelt New Deal, The Scottsboro Boys
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shapes of things
How did the “world of tomorrow” look to those who were trying to envisage it in 1939 at the New York World’s fair? …Other exhibitors, their minds apparently a blank when confronted with the possibility of technological advance seemed to … Continue reading
the way they was
The America on the eve of World War II. Does it and should it make us yearn for an idyllic past? …The great clearinghouse of 1939 projections of the future was, of course, the New York World’s Fair, the theme … Continue reading
Heresy on the Guest list: too darn hot
Heresy has always had many faces. The classic division has always followed the Voltaire pattern of speaking truth to power in order to be absorbed within the establishment, and accept the sacraments. Heresy has traditionally been seen as four faced: … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Benozzo Gozzoli, Charles Lindberg, Charles Lindbergh, Cole Porter, Dorothy Thompson, Ethan Mordden, Ethel Waters, Fred Astaire, Goethe, Grouch Marx, John Dos Passos, John Ford, John Wycliffe, Katharine Hepburn, Moss Hart, Pedro Berruguete, Simon Magus, Sinclair Lewis, Stefan Kanfer, Truman Capote, Voltaire
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