All posts tagged "1930s"
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Economics
American-Made by Nick Taylor
June 27, 2022Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
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History
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
June 12, 2022Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
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Biography
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 26, 2022Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: M, #45
January 29, 2022A child murderer is terrorizing the city. The police hunt is intense, but fruitless. So the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Untouchables, #28
November 16, 2021In the midst of a dinner party in his honor, Capone (Robert De Niro) takes out...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Public Enemy, #23
November 10, 2021Cagney, along with Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and, later, Humphrey Bogart, invented the film gangster....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Dillinger, #83
September 19, 2021Dillinger is a B-movie and doesn’t attempt to be more than that. There is not a...
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Art
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
July 8, 2021Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
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Books
Book Review: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
October 20, 2020The theme of making a life choice between love or ambition has been a staple of...
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Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
August 16, 2020Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
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