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...broader way, the movie played the role of candid dinner party guest in the social dialogue over anti-Semitism in the 1940s. Indeed, in changing our attitudes about issues like race, religion, and sexuality—and in changing the content of our everyday political and social dialogue—popular culture consistently plays the part of emperor’s boy, one loud enough for all of us to hear...
Hanging up his labcoat and accepting the position of dean, Knowles joined company with a select group of 20th century Harvard men who had not just altered the University but the world around it. In the 1940s, Paul H. Buck held the post, chairing the committee that produced the “General Education in a Free Society” report, better known as the Red Book, which influenced curricula in higher education for a generation. McGeorge Bundy was chosen as dean in 1953 by University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, later to be tapped by another...
Since ancient Rome, people have believed in the physical and mental healing powers of hot springs, which, in the American South and West, are still popular tourist destinations. U.S. spas promoted mud baths in the 1940s, and the '70s brought in-home saunas and hot tubs. Now comes the next step in the quest for holistic relaxation: salt caves...
...Allen (Patricia Clarkson, “Pieces of April”) tells her husband Harry (Chris Cooper, “American Beauty”) that “love is sex.” Pat and Harry are a middle-aged couple in a rut living in the 1940s. Unlike his wife, Harry is a sentimentalist who has loftier notions of love. He tells his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan, “Die Another Day”), “I always dreamed of a woman being truly in love with me.” This difference of opinion...
...Married Life,” which is based on theJohn Bingham novel “Five Roundaboutsto Heaven,” takes place in 1949, but thestory itself is remarkably relevant to thepresent day. “We wanted to make a contemporarystory set in the 1940s,” Sachssaid. “The 40s are kind of today, really, ina lot of ways. These characters could beour parents, they could be us, they couldbe anyone.”The film also defies genre classification,at times aspiring to noirish suspensewhile also achieving a darkly comedic undertone.It...