Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church of Rome, reached the Holy City for the ceremonies that would make them not only princes of the Church, but brothers and counsellors to the man they look upon as Christ's Vicar on Earth. They came as pilgrims, but for some the pilgrimage was at 20th-century speed...
...collection of 18th-Century prints (Hogarth and English Caricature; Transatlantic Arts Co.; $4.50), published in London, was available at U.S. bookstores last week. It might surprise 20th-Century readers to learn how much political cartoonists of that day got away with...
...with the 20th Century, these Protestants had largely abdicated before the vast proliferation of profane education...
...mass of men," wrote Thoreau from the fir-scented tranquillity of Walden Pond, "lead lives of quiet desperation." In periods of accelerated history, the organic rot of Rome, the collapse of the Middle Ages, the gigantic life & death struggles of 20th-century civilization, this desperation takes on a new intensity. Its symbol in our time is the emigre, the political fugitive...
Some of the most provocative recent writing is contained in a 14-page preface by Novelist Thomas Mann to the reprint of six short novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Few 19th-Century novelists said as much in a whole lifework as did Fyodor Dostoevsky in his short novels. Few 20th-century critics could say, at book length, as much about Dostoevsky as Mann says in the introductory essay in which the great German brilliantly examines the great Russian, and, for the first time, movingly acknowledges his debt...