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...include memoirs, letters, sketches and two novels, Islands in the Stream and now The Garden of Eden, a kinky love triangle about a promising young writer and two women on the leading edge of fashion and sexual mechanics. The setting is the coast of southern France during the mid-1920s. The sun is strong, the water clean, the food good and true. Best of all, the hotel Grau du Roi is a fine place to be a writer named David Bourne, honeymooning and working on a story of a youth and his father tracking a killer elephant in the African...
During the 1920s, in response to the rising rate of Jewish matriculation (1 percent in 1881, 10 percent in 1918 and 22 percent in 1922), President A. Lawrence Lowell helped establish a new admissions system to combat the University's "Jewish problem." There were few Blacks at Harvard until the mid-20th century, only 160 before 1940. Black students were barred from the dormitories until 1923; they were segregated from whites in College residences until World War II. It seems that Harvard's much touted reputation for diversity and tolerance is a relatively recent phenomenon...
...major league players with the same last name; obviously no one named Lisa Anderson has ever played professional baseball. Sorry about the confusion. Anyway, among the namesakes are Mike Anderson (Philadelphia outfielder in the early '70s), Cliff Brady (Boston second baseman in 1920), Alta Cohen (Giant infielder in the 1920s), Mel and Albert Hall, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Rich Nye (Cub pitcher in the 1960s), Pat Putnam, Jim Price (Tiger catcher in the late '60s), and Earl Wilson. Glenn Hoffman spells his name with only...
Along with Saudi Arabia and Mexico, the Beverly Hills Unified School District is facing hard times because of plunging oil prices. Since the 1920s, the school district has bolstered its budget with revenues from oil wells behind Beverly Hills High that overlook the athletic fields. An oil company leases the land from the school district and pays royalties based on the profits it makes from the wells. When petroleum prices shot up in the 1970s, the district's annual oil earnings jumped to $1.5 million. The extra revenue has helped Beverly Hills pay its teachers a handsome...
Advertising in any case, is not principally informative. At least since the 1920s--through the influence of theories drawn from social psychology and propaganda techniques developed during World War I--the world of advertising has involved the adroit manipulation of subconscious desires and fears...