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...film marks the crest of the "Hitler wave," which began in the early 1970s with a flood of books on the Reichskanzler and his era. Producer Joachim Fest, co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of Hitler, a massive 1973 biography, drew on film clips of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Using his book's conclusions as a base, Fest set out to make a movie that would explore how an obscure Austrian postcard artist could win power and put it to such evil purposes. As the newspaper Die Welt noted in its review...
...half-spoken sentences in his wake. He sugars his more serious discussion-on the role of psychology in biography, methods of research, and narrative forms-with anecdotes culled from his past. An interest in the psychological novel, and in James as its exponent, led Edel to Paris in the 1920s. There, while a doctoral candidate at the Sorbonne, he encountered James Joyce. "Joyce once sat beside me at a reading, but his impassive face put me off," recalls Edel. "What could I say anyway?" he shrugs. " 'Mr. Joyce, I really enjoyed Ulysses...
Other designers have also produced variations on the Oriental theme. For the House of Lanvin-which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the creation of its Arpege perfume with a special showing of six dresses designed by Jeanne Lanvin in the 1920s-Jules-Francois Crahay paid homage to Asia with thick, quilted Tibetan coats, Mongolian jackets, and brilliantly colored folkloric ensembles. Even the names of the clothes were redolent of the enigmatic East -Petrograd, Katmandu, Marrakech and Salome...
...Algonquin Round Table, a reading of works from Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker (who is famous for quips like 'If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end-to-end, I for one wouldn't be a bit surprised.') and other members of this 1920s circle of literati opens Friday at the Tickets...
...search committee for candidates in the field of literature for the professorship, the first in modern Greek studies since the 1920s, was established earlier this year...