mid-twentieth-century

This is four hundred pages of detailed exegesis of the first month of WWI, complete with snark, personlity profiles, and a healthy dose of mid-twentieth-century cultural baggage.

i'm sick of fighting even though i know i should netcurmudgeon 2009

People will argue, correctly, that in showing the arrant sexism of mid-twentieth-century Britain le Carré was simply hewing to reality -- as Prime Suspect did, decades later.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

While the folding screen enjoyed a brief respite due to the contrivances of early cinema, evidently it was doomed: A good proportion of the land-fill of large mid-twentieth-century cities must consist mostly of folding screens.

Tennis? 2009

These unique local conditions were once celebrated by the mid-twentieth-century architects who built there before the profession was seduced by air-­conditioning.

Why Is Everybody Tearing Down Paul Rudolph Houses and Buildings? | Inhabitat 2010

People will argue, correctly, that in showing the arrant sexism of mid-twentieth-century Britain le Carré was simply hewing to reality -- as Prime Suspect did, decades later.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

People will argue, correctly, that in showing the arrant sexism of mid-twentieth-century Britain le Carré was simply hewing to reality -- as Prime Suspect did, decades later.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

While the folding screen enjoyed a brief respite due to the contrivances of early cinema, evidently it was doomed: A good proportion of the land-fill of large mid-twentieth-century cities must consist mostly of folding screens.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

Lockheed Martin has helped turn Eisenhower’s dismal mid-twentieth-century vision into a for-profit military-industrial-surveillance complex fit for the twenty-first century, one in which no governmental activity is now beyond its reach.

William Hartung: Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You? How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother William Hartung 2011

People will argue, correctly, that in showing the arrant sexism of mid-twentieth-century Britain le Carré was simply hewing to reality -- as Prime Suspect did, decades later.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

By this account, sexual pleasure becomes what Theodor Adorno, founder of the mid-twentieth-century Frankfurt School of social theory, condemned as a biological trick to preserve the species.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010