Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long considered one of the world's fine stylists, Miss Bowen was at her best in this study of tenuous human relationships in wartime Britain. To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century British manners & morals seen through the eyes of an old Victorian individualist. England's shyest novelist and one of her best, Henry Green, made his American bow with Loving. A dense, subtly written and poetic novel of character with an Irish-castle setting, it fully deserved the British...
...King Frederik and Queen Ingrid toasted him at a lunch in the Danish embassy, while in the streets outside a huge crowd greeted him with shouts of "Good old Winnie!" "His life," said London's Evening Standard, "is the most important individual strand in the weave of the 20th Century...
Move People. "Technique, composition and all that should be unconscious," Stuempfig explains. "This whole emphasis on technique is a product of the 19th and 20th Centuries; before that people painted the way they walked. The aim is to create something that moves people, that affects them in one way or another...
Though each of Hilton's hotels is different from the others, together they form a rich pattern of 20th Century U.S. hotel life. In the U.S., more than any other country, the big hotel has become a city in itself. There, says Hilton, "you could live out a full life without ever going out of doors. They have nightclubs, banquet halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park...
...mean Pleasure Dome to be profound literary criticism, and since it isn't, it can be judged by only one standard: Does it really help the ordinary intelligent reader-the kind who might tackle a Faulkner novel but shies away from an Eliot poem-to understand and enjoy 20th Century poetry...