Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playoff-bound Cantabs soon found so many holes that the Bulldogs looked like they were guarding their half with a sieve, and in the 20th minute, the booters were able to get the only goal they needed...
...combat the well-organized incumbent, labor supplemented its usual campaign tools-phone banks, flyers, canvassing-with an array of high-tech methods. "They've moved into the 20th century politically," says Washington-based Labor Consultant Victor Kamber. "Now they use direct mail and laser-printed letters. They show videodisks in union halls." Two years ago, aided by computers, the AFL-CIO started to pinpoint unregistered members and sign them up. In Alabama, registration among members in one Sheet Metal Workers' local shot from 40% to more than 90%. Last month, AFL-CIO President Kirkland took to the road...
...primary system, where choice of candidates begins, is now as absurd as the presidential system before the passage of the 20th Amendment, which reorganized presidential and congressional tenures. The old rules of national elections held that a President elected in November could not take office until March; a Congress elected with him could not take office, unless in an emergency, for 13 months after the election. That system could not work in the 20th century of airplanes and telecommunications, so it was changed...
...Christoph von who? The German-born conductor, 55, grandson of Hungarian Composer Ernst von Dohnányi, had made his career in Germany not principally as an orchestral maestro but as an opera conductor and administrator, most recently at the Hamburg State Opera. He had a reputation as a 20th century music specialist, a distinction that has little appeal at the American box office. By contrast, the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the proudest in the land. George Szell, who led it from 1946 until his death in 1970, made it into a rich, breathtakingly precise ensemble. His standards were...
...horse-one of Rubens' baroque equine wardrobes, say, all flourishing hoofs and cascading mane-could possess the same intensity. Hambletonian may have been sired by a classical frieze, but his only foal would be the horse in Guernica, thrusting its outraged neck toward the indifferent sky of the 20th century. -By Robert Hughes