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...possibilities of such a massive gift of God seemed endless. In his first Inaugural Address, Thomas Jefferson spoke of the country having "room enough for our descendants to the 100th and 1,000th generation." In 1839 the Democratic Review proclaimed with apostolic expansiveness: "Our national birth was the beginning of a new history. . .which separates us from the past and connects us with the future only." Americans have always carried their highly idealized beginning with them like a marmoreal totem. They invented themselves. That invention became their legitimizing idea, the germ of their justification...
...annual budget is four times as large as that of any other U.S. company, has a relatively paltry endowment of $2.2 million. In a press conference last week, Met President Frank Taplin and Executive Director Anthony Bliss announced plans to remedy that situation in a big way. By its 100th anniversary season in 1983-84, they said, the Met aims to raise its endowment to $100 million. Its nationwide campaign has already gathered $33 million in pledges, including a single gift of $5 million from the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation...
...dears, how William Claude Dukenfield would have chuckled over the irony surrounding his 100th birthday. To mark the date, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp honoring the Philadelphia-born comic who soared to film fame and immortality as W.C. Fields. The postmen forgot that Fields, so pinchpenny that he could name every bank in which he had an account and estimate the interest due, had willed not only his money but his name-and the attendant publicity value-to his heirs. Thus, to print the Fields stamp, the U.S. had to pay a royalty...
February 11: On the 100th day of the Iranian hostage crisis, a crowd of 18 angry street peddlers gathers outside the American embassy in Teheran, shouting "Death to the Shah." A Los Angeles Times correspondent delivers the last of the Christmas cards to the hostages. Iranian Foreign Minister Ghotzbadeh hints the Iranians are willing to make a deal exchanging the hostages for Kissinger, former CIA director Colby...
Charles Ives, The 100th Anniversary (Columbia, 5 LPs, 1974). A comprehensive survey of the fiercely original and patriotic works that made this stubborn Yankee America's first great composer...