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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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Lucille Ball
Culture; American culture
(born 1911); d.1989 After years as a minor movie actor, Ball and husband Desi Arnaz (1917–86) changed television comedy through their long-running hit sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–7) and further 1-hour ...
Jackson Pollock
Culture; American culture
(1912 – 1956) Renowned abstract expressionist painter. He departed wildly from pre-war painting conventions, and yet was perhaps as well known for his chaotic, impassioned life. His acclaim and ...
John Cage
Culture; American culture
(1912 – 1992) Philosopher, author and composer who forever changed notions of chance or indeterminacy in composition. One of his most famous works, “4’33”,” consisted of the composer sitting at the ...
Thomas “Tip” O’Neill
Culture; American culture
(1912 – 1994) Massachusetts member of Congress and Speaker of the House. Elected to Congress in 1952, O’Neill made famous the phrase, “All politics is local,” a credo which contends that local, ...
Gene Kelly
Culture; American culture
(1912 – 1996) Leaving Broadway for Hollywood in the 1940s, Kelly’s dancing, choreography and directing revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He countered Fred Astaire’s ballroom rhythms with a more ...
Gerald R. Ford
Culture; American culture
(born 1913) Thirty-eighth president of the United States, the first to become so without being elected either to that office or the vice-presidency. A highly regarded moderate Republican from ...
Delmore Schwartz
Culture; American culture
(1913 – 1966) Intellectual poet of alienation and short-story writer. Schwartz had many issues to work out about both his family and his place in society; his later work is marked by a descent into ...
