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...book or an ideal that was not somehow tinged by the penetrating hue of Communist dogma. That such men exist, that they occupy positions of power is one of the most important facts in today's world. Gromyko does not belong in the category of the commissars of the 1920s, who were far more imaginative and volatile. He is closer to the yogi type?a yogi in disciplined contemplation of a narrow cult...
Declaring at the outset that "now is no time for onward and upward speeches," Hartz compared the two years since V-J Day to the days of the 1920s which followed World War I. He said that the same misunderstanding of the real meaning of peace that existed then prevails today...
...Territory's towns are crowded, but areas of military construction blend the fever of the '98 gold rush with the Los Angeles boom of the 1920s. Since 1940, the population of dusty, mountain-rimmed Anchorage has swollen from 3,500 to 14,000. Indians, construction workers, farmers, soldiers, flyers, women in dungarees and muddy boots, women in mink coats and platform shoes, jostle on its mile-long main street, crowd its 66 saloons and liquor stores...
...British are nationalizing their electricity. We nationalized ours years & years ago, or a vast part of it. ... (Ramsay MacDonald, here in the 1920s, said we had more socialism than England.) . . . Mr. Attlee nationalized the Bank of England; it is no more nationalized than our Bank of Canada. Also, haven't we a nationalized radio . . . not to speak of complete control of our wheat marketing, nationalized steamships, plus all sorts of other controls...
...critics pounced on newcomer Koerner. Those who supposed that his work showed the trend of U.S. art proudly concluded that painting in the U.S. had gone German. Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s. Along with My Parents, the show's strongest painting was The Prophet (see cut), which reminded critics of Expressionist Grosz and also of Koerner's favorite Old Master, Peter Bruegel. (Of his bony, monkey-like Prophet, Koerner said that he "might be a demagogue or a statesman...