Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...20s, when he was already established as a novelist in the new vernacular style, Mao Tun was one of Chiang Kai-shek's most effective pamphleteers. But after a quarrel with Chiang, he veered left. The slashing novels he then wrote (Midnight, Before Dawn) against foreign imperialists and thieving landlords made him the most widely read young man of letters of the day; their sharp critical edge persuaded many young intellectuals that Communism might be China's best hope...
Will Rogers, the country-boy conscience of the '20s and early '30s, who insisted that "there is no credit in being a comedian when you have the whole government working for you," could be biting, but most of the time he was jovially rustic where Sahl is urban and hip. Rogers was lovable, and even his fans do not claim that quality for Sahl. But in his own way, Sahl has taken his place on the center line of the Ward-Dooley-Rogers tradition. The Depression and war years produced only minor political satire. Among comedians, Bob Hope...
Leader of the metal faction is John Challis, pioneer U.S. manufacturer of harpsichords, who learned his trade back in the '20s from the late famed English Instrument Maker Arnold Dolmetsch. In a shop at the rear of his huge, century-old brick house in Detroit, Challis constructs about twelve harpsichords a year (last week he was working on his 230th), grosses $30,000. A Challis harpsichord costs anywhere from $900 to $5,800, is made of walnut and modern materials like Bakelite, aluminum and plastic...
...What Hollywood did in the '20s and '30s for the cinema, White City could do in the '60s and '70s for television," trumpeted London's Sunday Express proudly. "White City'' in this context means the British Broadcasting Corp.'s new TV headquarters, and not the nearby White City stadium, where England's eager bettors wager millions on the greyhounds. BBC's half-finished complex of glass and brick is the largest TV factory in the world and even includes a studio that can be flooded to create a lake...
...high-fee portraiture and many other of his paintings of ladies, Dutch-born Paris Artist Kees Van Dongen, 83, has never made a secret of his profitable penchant to "paint women slimmer than they are and their jewels fatter." In the '20s, Dongen enhanced this effect in the fashion of the age, often painted his women with short-shingled hair, excessive eye and lip makeup. Making a small sensation in Manhattan last week, U.S. Designer Norman Norell trotted out his fall collection, featuring elegant divided skirts. He expressed his due appreciation for his show's success...