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...1920s and 1930s, TlMEstyle was a clever, sometimes irreverent blend of double-barreled adjectives (bald-domed, haystack-haired), word combinations (Nobelman, cinemaddict), neologisms (tycoon, socialite) and inverted sentences. Although that approach changed long ago, style, in a different sense of the word, remains vital to the magazine. Maintaining TIME's linguistic standards and revising them when necessary are the responsibility of the Copy Desk. Says Copy Chief Susan Blair: "Our main concern is to make the magazine as easy as possible to read. We don't want to throw the reader any curves...
Like the blues, slapstick comedy and the .400 hitter, the murder mystery enjoyed its golden age in the 1920s. That was the epoch of Agatha Christie and Ronald Knox, of G.K. Chesterton and S.S. Van Dine. The mystery craze gripped every age, sex and temperament; it spread so wide that it was parodized by P.G. Wodehouse. Back then it seemed possible to believe, as Playwright Anthony Shaffer later joshed in Sleuth, that mysteries were "the normal recreation of noble minds...
Whereas Soviet artists produced propaganda that directly supported Stalin’s regime, Italian literati during the 1920s and 1930s adopted a more hands-off, apathetic approach to the rise of Mussolini’s fascism. While many of Italy’s artists and intellectuals were in theory “liberal,” meaning sympathetic to the democratic monarchy, “liberal writers were totally absent from the political scene,” said Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile. “They did not think it was their business to meddle...
...novel was also perfect for him: Jeunet had always been drawn to World War I and 1920s Paris, and he felt that the beautiful story was an artful combination of his passions. To testify to his interest in the period, Jeunet recalls having a feeling of déjà vu when on set in the trenches, speculating that “maybe I died...
Boyle's focus is on a trial that laid bare the racial tensions of Detroit in the 1920s. On Sept. 8, 1925, Ossian Sweet, a young black physician, moved with his wife and baby daughter into a bungalow in a largely white neighborhood. Just one night later, a white mob began showering the place with rocks while police stood by. Then a barrage of gunfire blazed back from the house. Anticipating trouble, Sweet had secretly stored away guns and recruited friends to help him defend his home...