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...Ellis Island is it really is a monument to the masses." The chief monument is the main building itself, a beaux arts structure with French Renaissance trappings that was erected in 1900 after fire destroyed an earlier terminal. Immigration dropped off sharply after Congress imposed restrictive quotas in the 1920s, and by 1954 Ellis Island was abandoned to the pigeons and vandals. Its revival was supervised by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island restoration project, which raised money from private and corporate contributions, and by the National Park Service, which owns the 27.5-acre island...
...antiquity" of the 1920s was not simply a rehash of the antiquity venerated by neoclassicists a century before. Provincial antiquity seemed less mined out and more alive than mainstream classicism. Thus in Italy -- Massimo Campigli's painting, for instance, or Marino Marini's sculpture -- the % emphasis shifted from Roman marbles and Greek urns to the rougher, more vital- looking frescoes and terra-cottas of the Etruscans. The idea was to recapture a sense of antiquity that connoted a spirit of place, an Arcadian flavor, more Hesiodic than Augustan...
...enough to step aboard. Park operators are also souping up old coasters and bringing others out of mothballs in a race to produce the terrifying rides. A total of 176 coasters are running in the U.S., up from 147 in 1978 and the most since the heyday of the 1920s...
Putting consumer goods on Soviet shelves might also help revive the vanished work ethic and boost productivity by establishing a link between earning money and being able to buy desirable merchandise. That link was severed in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s, when Lenin's relatively liberal New Economic Policy was replaced by Stalin's industrial planning and forced collectivization of agriculture...
Down deep, what frustrates today's young people -- and those who observe them -- is their failure to create an original youth culture. The 1920s had jazz and the Lost Generation, the 1950s created the Beats, the 1960s brought everything embodied in the Summer of Love. But the twentysomething generation has yet to make a substantial cultural statement. People in their 20s have been handed down everyone else's music, clothes and styles, leaving little room for their own imaginations. Mini-revivals in platform shoes, ripped jeans and urban-cowboy chic all coincide with J. Crew prep, Gumby haircuts and teased...