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TIME Remembers Grapes of Wrath
By David Chambers On 2015.01.25 · Leave a Comment · In Art, Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Review - Movie, Reviews
This week’s TIME magazine issue includes an article called “‘We’re the People': John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath at 75” by long-time movie critic and editor Richard Corliss.
Corliss contextualizes the movie and its impact on its 75th anniversary. Remembering that Gone With the Wind had comes […]
I have created a new entry for Hideo Noda (1908-1939) on Wikipedia.
Noda was a Japanese-American modernist painter and muralist who gained fame in 1933 after he assisted Diego Rivera on his notorious mural “Man at the Crossroads.”
Seventy-five years ago today, in the early hours of September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler‘s Wehrmacht began its Blitzkrieg on Poland when the dreadnought battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein fired on Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig. The invasion of Poland had begun, […]
C-SPAN 3 airs “Cold War Era Spies” with new insight into the spy activities of Whittaker Chambers in the early 1930s, before the Hiss Case.
Program and Airing Details: Apr 27, 2014 | 6:30pm EDT | C-SPAN 3 Apr 27, 2014 | […]
[Arnold Deutsch, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt – Daily Telegraph]
The London Review of Books has published this comment on Inigo Thomas‘s piece, “High Priestess of Anti-Communism“:
Mr. […]
British writer Doris Lessing died in London today, aged 94. She had become a communist in the 1940s about the time she married Gottfried Lessing but had abandoned such ideas by 1949.
In 1992, Lessing wrote and lectured about “Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind By Communism.” A brief of that […]
Whittaker Chambers died 52 years ago today: reprinted here is TIME magazine’s obituary for its former senior editor, “Historical Notes: Death of the Witness
TIME’s March 5, 1945, edition carried something unusual in its pages: a “political fairy story” called “The Ghosts on the Roof” — most recently cited as a top piece in Time: 85 Years of Great Writing (2008).
Seven ghosts settle on the roof of the Livadia Palace […]
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