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This, he continued, was a "1920s Ivy League view--standing on the sidelines and cheering" while the action goes on elsewhere...
Some sophisticated Wall Streeters consider Perot not only unrealistic but see his simplistic advertising appeals as potentially dangerous. If he really can sell the little guy on the stock market, they fear, he might unintentionally create a speculative mentality like that of the 1920s. But as the head of two of the biggest brokerages, Perot can hardly be ignored, and his evangelizing has converted at least some veteran financial men. As one old-line duPont Glore Forgan executive has confessed, "I haven't been so excited since I went on my first date...
There are striking parallels in history to this combination of oppressive policy and "science" to back it up. Several of Herrnstein's sources, Francis Galton and Lewis Terman, were in the 1920s eugenics movement, which led to 30 states passing laws against interracial marriage and for sterilization of 10,000 of the "defective" in 24 states. Herrnstein is aware of the inadequacy of his data and of the seriousness of the social policy he advocates. By publishing again in a popular news magazine, providing no new evidence to prove his case, and by calling for social policy whose application could...
...winning first prize in the Concours International at Geneva, and developing a reputation as both soloist and chamber-music player. In 1945, then 33, desperately in search of an opportunity to conduct, Solti got word that Pianist Edward Kilenyi, an American who had studied in Budapest back in the 1920s (and whom Solti had got to know then), was the music-control officer for the U.S. occupation forces in Bavaria. Solti shot off a letter to Kilenyi and ended up with the job of music director of the Munich State Opera. Though his experience was practically nonexistent for such...
...satire. Anyone who understands a satirist's mind knows that he is someone who is deeply disappointed and takes his revenge in poking fun at the objects of his disillusionment." Mrs. Luce's disillusionment was with her pre-Women life in the café society of the 1920s and 1930s where rich women with nothing better to do turned on themselves. "It was a life I did not like," she says firmly, underlining every word. "The expectation of my youth was that women were on the road to liberation. But I discovered that it was still...