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Louise Brooks A 1920s showgirl best known as Lulu in Pandora's Box, she epitomized the long, lean flapper look but had a healthy...
Frenchman Louis Darquier de Pellepoix beat his wife, abandoned his child and spent the 1920s and '30s avoiding work while cadging money from relatives. But he had one distinguishing vice: anti-Semitism. Darquier fed the flames of hate, and after the Nazi occupation, it paid off. By currying favor with Nazis and collaborators alike, he became Commissioner for Jewish Affairs for the Vichy government in May 1942, presiding over a nest of corruption and the deportation of 75,000 Jews to German death camps. He died in 1980, unpunished and unrepentant. Callil lays out Darquier's sordid tale with cool...
Wilder was born in what is now Poland in 1906. His writing career first began in Berlin in the late 1920s. After writing as a journalist for the German tabloids, Wilder turned to screenplays. During the rise of Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, fled from Berlin to Paris. When he left Paris for the United States in 1933, he landed fortuitously in Hollywood...
...1920s Greenwich Village-style salon in Quincy House? John C. McMillian, resident tutor and lecturer on history and literature, thinks so. His evening chat sessions—so far there have been five—have covered topics like withdrawal from Iraq and global famine relief. Heavy stuff for a Friday night. Tonight’s topic: “If you were in charge of the war on terror, what would you do?” Sipping cheap Merlot from a clear plastic cup, McMillian awaits the arrival of his guests. Barely audible ’60s rock music...
...compared the rise of the Sunni extremist camp—in the form of Al-Qaeda and afilliated-groups—to the rise of Fascism in Europe during the 1920s...