Kantor

When using this method of viewing history, math becomes important. Math tells you what age people were when important events happened, helps keep track of where in their life they were.

This came up during a search for more information  on The Best Years of Our Lives, which led to the writer of the original novel, MacKinlay Kantor. The movie won Best Picture in 1947, after being released in 1946, that being only a year after the war ended.  Anyone paying attention to how the cycles work should notice that, with the war over, the next Turning would be a First turning, which means an exuberant population post-Crisis ... and witch hunts.

Which makes it easier still to remember that 1947 was also the year the Hollywood Ten were before Congress. And that makes one wonder about some of the not-especially-subtle subtext, of children sympathetic to the fate of the enemy or a businessman showing the line between have and have-not. It seemed possible that, while perhaps not a Communist, the author was sympathetic. (Although one should consider that the screenplay was not written by him.)

And then it turns out that, whatever else he might have considered, he acted as a front for Dalton Trumbo - one of the Hollywood Ten - allowing his name to be on a screenplay and passing the payment along.