Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...habit of returning to the White House, except, of course, in the tasteful form of a commissioned portrait. So it was that a painting of a soft, almost melancholy Rosalynn Carter, 57, quietly made its debut last week in the ground-floor corridor, where pictures of all the 20th century First Ladies are hung. Though the Carters left Washington in 1980, Rosalynn was too busy to pose for Artist George Augusta until September of last year. But the delay has not hurt. "She is still young, and she left before showing the effects of office," observes White House Curator Clement...
...Harvard cannot, I assure the ethnocentric novices who run Harvard Black Student Association, be won by Blacks. Indeed, this frightening scenario would be detrimental to all of us--to all Americans--and especially detrimental to the cosmopolitan imperative that Harvard has played such a painstaking role in advancing in 20th century America. Martin L. Kilson Professor of Government
...late 20th century loves "hot" romantics and geniuses with a curse on them. Caravaggio's short life and shorter temper fit this bill. He died of a fever in 1610 at 39 in Porto Ercole, then a malarial Spanish enclave on the coast north of Rome. The last four years of his life were one long paranoiac flight from police and assassins; on the run, working under pressure, he left magnificently realized, death-haunted altarpieces in Mediterranean seaports from Naples to Valletta to Palermo. He killed one man with a dagger in the groin during a ball game in Rome...
...Oral History project, which was completed this year, is comprised of oral memoirs of a selected group of older Black women who "made significant contributions of varying kinds to American society in the early and middle decades of the 20th century," said Schlesinger Library Director Patricia King...
...Lowell House Opera was founded in 193 with students producing operas every year since excluding the three years during World War II. It's the only Institutionalized opera association of its kind at Harvard. The operas are always in English but include both 19th and 20th century works...