Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human society can endure without agreement on certain fundamentals, e.g., why man is in the world, what is his purpose here and how he should try to fulfill it. In the 20th Century, this agreement is weak and fuzzy. Scientists have contributed to the moral confusion...
...Family. The audience recovered from its surprise quickly enough to admire the fair play of the Academy's 1,450 voting members. For some, another surprise was the fate of 20th Century-Fox's major contender, The Snake Pit, which won only one award, for its sound recording...
Yesterday, thousands swarmed through Tech's 46 buildings along the Charles to sightsee and to listen to an imposing array of panel discussions which undertook to analyze the achievements, trends, and unsolved problems of 50 years of the 20th century...
...snoozing beside his wife in the "Late Christian Epoch" (the 20th Century) when the Goddess "evokes" him into an unstated time in the future. At first glance, he thinks New Crete looks wonderful. Money and machinery have been abolished; matriarchy has made everybody happy; poets, witches and magicians are thick as nuts and considered an elite class...
...when the Goddess herself appears in the form of an unscrupulous female named Erica-a "triple-faced, ash-blonde bitch" with whom Poet Venn-Thomas had had a gruesome love affair in the Late Christian Epoch. What Erica does to overcivilized New Crete is something awful. She plants some 20th Century cigarettes in the closet of a cute little nymph named Sapphire; she fouls up the witches, hexes the horses, mortifies the magicians. By the time she's through, New Crete is on the verge of collapse-at which point Poet Venn-Thomas sensibly decides to whirl back...