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Hace 5 días · Great Contemporaries: Stanley Baldwin, A Case for Magnanimity. By FRED GLUECKSTEIN. | April 29, 2024. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (center) with Churchill (r) and Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain. (Library of Congress) “Will the bloody duck swim?”
Hace 1 día · Churchill’s Critics: Jibes, Ripostes and Insults. “Here endeth the last chapter of the Book of Jeremiah.” (Leo Amery). WSC rails against the India Act while MacDonald and Baldwin slumber on the Government front bench, 28 November 1934. (Cartoon by Vicky, public domain)
Hace 1 día · Modernism is a movement that attempts a radical break with previous ideas in art, literature, philosophy, culture, and social organization. It emerged during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to significant changes in Western culture, including secularization and the growing importance of science.
Hace 1 día · In Splinters, Jamison charts her early experiences of motherhood, at the same time as her marriage is ending. But it's not only a memoir of motherhood and romantic relationships as Jamison starts ...
Hace 1 día · Tierney excels in film noir roles such as in "Night and the City" and "Whirlpool," showcasing her talents. Tierney's performances in classics like "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "Leave Her to Heaven" prove her underrated brilliance. Gene Tierney was one of Hollywood's great leading ladies of the 1940s and 1950s and, though she may not have a ...
Hace 5 días · Peter H. Hoffenberg discusses the linkages between the exhibitions and imperialism, noting that while the nineteenth and early twentieth-century world’s fairs propagandized imperial ideologies, they could also generate anti-imperial interpretations amongst contemporaries that undermined the imperial narratives.
Hace 2 días · Compared with contemporaries like Thomas Pynchon or Don DeLillo, he has been considered less complicated and less demanding – as though his books are the first step toward books by greater authors. It's clear that his style – which combines a blurring of the line between real and imaginary with confessional writing and influences from crime fiction and film noir – gives him a unique voice.
