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...Moanin', Groanin' Blues: Ida Cox (Riverside). One of the classic blues singers displays the supple style, the subtle sense of inflection and phrase, with which she compensated for her lack of the bellows strength of, say, Ma Rainey. Her quarrel with men in these 1920s recordings is unrelenting...
Lewis Mumford has probably staked out as good a claim as any to being the U.S.'s leading critic of its cities, towns and cultural highways and byways. In the 1920s, when Van Wyck Brooks was discovering the unrecognized richness of the U.S. literary past and Poet Hart Crane was apotheosizing the Brooklyn Bridge, Mumford's Sticks and Stones, A Study of American Architecture and Civilization was the first, brash exploration of American town planning and building, ranging from the New England Common to the glories of Bridge Builder John A. Roebling. Mumford's fresh...
...been an awful fight. Until the 1920s, Mississippi basin flood control consisted almost entirely of unconnected local systems. There were lots of them: Cairo, Ill., for example, at the crucial confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, had dikes that peered down on the city's tallest building. But eventually the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began working out an integrated flood-control system for the whole river network...
...While playing with the Birmingham Repertory Company in the 1920s, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, now 68, gave Britain some of its finest theatrical hours, earned the especial esteem of the creator of many of his most challenging roles. Recalls Hardwicke in his memoirs, A Victorian in Orbit: "Probably the handsomest compliment ever paid me was delivered by Bernard Shaw. 'You are,' he said, 'my fifth favorite actor, the first four being the Marx Brothers.' " Knighted in 1934, Hardwicke well remembers the occasion. King George V could not quite catch the actor's name, finally gave...
Both the sit-ins and the Black Muslim movements demonstrate that the new drive for elevation is not confined to the spotlighting of a few black individuals, as was characteristic of the Black Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s. Now, "lifting as they climb," the leaders have set in motion the whole mass of the now restricted people of colour. It is the people whose voice we now hear, not the protest of a lonely W. E. B. duBois or James Weldon Johnson...