numbers entering higher education greatly increased.

social mobility

the cinema, radio, and television, each offering attractive role models

The two wars, of 1914–18 and 1939–45, brought the old Europe of the balance of power to the brink of destruction

Dubliners, André Gide’s novel Les Caves du Vatican, and D.H. Lawrence’s story The Prussian Officer. It was also the year of Pablo Picasso’s painting “The Small Table,” Igor Stravinsky’s Rossignol, Serge Diaghilev’s ballet version of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov’s Le Coq d’or, and the founding of the Vorticist movement in Britain by the painter and writer Percy Wyndham Lewis.