Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who had begun to fear that no workable plan could be found for international control of the atom had still to be shown that this was really such a plan. But the report raised hopes that the 20th Century's most impelling quest was not necessarily doomed to failure...
Largo Caballero had had as hard an education as the 20th Century could give. Spain's schools were not for the sons of village carpenters. But at 24, a plasterer in Madrid, he had taught himself to read. The dogmatic tracts of Castilian Socialist Pablo Iglesias were what he read...
Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox), an American-Gothic period piece based on a best-seller by Novelist Anya Seton, won't teach anyone much about the patroon system or the anti-rent wars, but it ought to teach a lesson to every simple farm girl in Greenwich, Conn...
...20th Century, Max Ernst (see col. 3) renounced the pleasures of painting the sunlit world he saw around him. By concentrating on the feathered, taloned, sharp-toothed horrors visible to his inner eye, Ernst became modern art's first surrealist (old masters Bosch, Brueghel, Grünewald, and others had been there be fore him). All Ernst had to do was to close his eyes to see Satan hovering before him in the studio. And Ernst's Satan was easy to recognize: he invariably looked like everything that Ernst feared most...
...when that somewhat anomalous crusade turned into a group of generals without an army, White followed Roosevelt into enforced retirement. Editor White did not understand exactly what historical forces were moving him and thousands of others in the muckraking, reforming, progressive surge that washed the U.S. into the 20th Century. But he felt vaguely, as he rigged political conventions, ran errands between politicians, and fought to put his friends in office, that he was participating in a benevolent revolution that was sweeping the world...