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...Terror." In 1953, Vida Hope, director of the London musical hit, The Boy Friend-a campy spoof of the 1920s-offered Julie the lead in the Broadway company. "My first thought," she remembers, "was 'Oh, good Christ, the idea of leaving my home and family'-I couldn't do it." But she tried the idea on "my Dad-my real Dad-the wisest and dearest man I knew." Said Dad: Take it. On the night of the New York opening, Julie turned 19-and the critics turned out the superlatives. She was a star...
Kandinsky's art became more and more severe in the 1920s, while he was teaching at Germany's famed Bauhaus. Only a few essential traces of serpentine exuberance remain in Stability. He had turned to the excessive discipline that he believed abstraction demanded. But the roots remain visible. Out of the icons of his native Russia and the glass paintings of Bavaria, Kandinsky had opened for himself a new perspective...
...time Kurt was in high school, the ruinous inflation of the 1920s was sweeping Germany. Deciding to become a teacher, he left Ebingen for a small Catholic academy in a nearby town, where he got a first-class education, mastered the organ, piano and violin, and became something of a linguist (today he speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian). After graduating in 1925, the young teacher found himself only another among Germany's millions of unemployed. But he had taken to writing poetry, and this proved to have a practical value. A millowner in Ebingen read some of Kurt...
Fateful Decision. Berlin in the 1920s was the place of coffee-house cynicism, lax morality, biting political satire and continual political turmoil. More interested in a degree than dialectics, Kiesinger at first stayed out of politics, but later joined the politically aware Catholic fraternity Askania. Fortunately, Askania was not all politics. At a fraternity ball, Kurt met the lovely 18-year-old daughter of one of the alumni. They danced together, and won the first prize in the dancing contest. On Christmas Eve 1932, Marie Luise Schneider and Kurt were married, set up a home near Berlin's Kurfürstendamm...
...late as the 1920s and 1930s, American cooking was still a homely affair, and a reform was long overdue. The great shift in U.S. home cooking did not take place until the end of World War II rationing. The postwar travel boom brought millions of U.S. tourists back from Europe with their tastes broadened and sharpened by what they had eaten there. At the same time, a host of kitchen aids, from dishwashers, pressure cookers, blenders and Deepfreeze units to the latest nonstick Teflon pans, were taking the drudgery out of cooking...