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...anachronistic look. There is a charming seediness about it, like a rundown old woman who meticulously cleans and presses her one and only dress. The crowded old French trolleys, with their paint peeling, still rattle about with a cheerful Gallic sound. Motorcycle cops with their tan uniforms use 1920s BMW machines...
...fixed, hereditary human nature. Early in her career, Margaret Mead, for example, set out to show how even the notions of maleness and femaleness vary from place to place. As she explained later: "It was a simple-a very simple-point to which our materials were organized in the 1920s, merely the documentation over and over of the fact that human nature is not rigid and unyielding." Linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf contributed to cultural relativism by stating that different linguistic groups conceive reality in different ways, that the way they think shapes the language they speak and vice...
Here is Miguel Angel Asturias, the leftist, Nobel-prizewinning novelist (El Señor Presidente, The Green Pope), relaxing over tea in his Paris home and recalling his 1920s youth in dictator-ridden Guatemala. The leaders, he says, "kept themselves hidden, spinning evil from secret corners like spiders." In protest, he created his "literature of commitment" to call attention to poverty and death on banana plantations and in quebracho forests...
Died. Frank (the "Fordham Flash") Frisch, 74, fiery second baseman for the New York Giants during the 1920s, later player-manager of the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang (see SPORT...
...relationships-thoroughly appropriate to the show's concern with marriage. In Follies, the songs did not move the play along so much as they suspended moments in time and savored them, following the practice of tunesmiths in the era nostalgically evoked by the show: the 1920s and '30s. Night Music is devoted predominantly to what Sondheim calls the "inner monologue song," in which characters sing of their deepest thoughts, but almost never to each other...