Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meant to serve? Have none of these people ever taken the trains in London, Paris--even Chicago? Don't they know it does not have to be this way? The newcomer, on a rising note of hysteria, begins to speak of the indignity and passivity that haunt the 20th century. More in sorrow than in anger, the real, regular commuters shake their heads and insist: "You don't understand...
Joffe's and Davidson's defects drag The Killing Fields under the threshold of cinematic glory. But its tough, unsparing depiction of two witnesses to one the 20th centuries greatest tragedies excuses the occasional cinematic botch-ups. The Killing Fields has the courage of its convictions, an encouraging case of substance winning over style...
...Constitution mandates that the President be sworn in on the 20th, so a private ceremony will be held on Sunday at the White House, attended only by the First Family, the Vice President and his family, the Cabinet and White House aides. A public ceremony will follow on Monday at the West Front of the Capitol before TV cameras and an anticipated crowd of 140,000. The President will wear a business suit instead of the black club coat and striped trousers he favored in 1981. Mrs. Reagan will be wearing an electric-blue outfit by Adolfo...
When jazz as an identifiable genre of music originated in New Orleans, during the later years of the 19th and earlier years of the 20th centuries, among the early pioneers of jazz were many Afro-Cubans or Creole musicians of Cuban heritage...
...sung high praise. "Intellectually and stylistically weighty," declared the Library Journal. This "book's strength is its thought-provoking interpretation," wrote a second critic. And a reader of the manuscript, judging it for publication by the Princeton University Press, rated the work as "the most important book on 20th century Germany written in the past 15 years...