Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...juvenile programs for the Justice Department: "It recognizes that juvenile crime is serious business that needs to be dealt with seriously." But others were appalled. New York University Law Professor Martin Guggenheim, who handled Martin's Supreme Court appeal, denounced the decision as a "throwback to pre-20th century law," when children had few rights. Some critics thought it was especially unfortunate that the high court upheld the New York laws since Guggenheim had convinced two lower federal courts that it was being used as a vehicle to impose punishments on unconvicted youngsters. Martin, for instance, was held...
...sellers must now go to court to haggle over prices on about 5,700 lots in 39 tracts of land, most of them owned by the Bishop estate. Myron Thompson, a trustee of the Bishop estate, calls the process perhaps "the greatest rip-off of this nation in the 20th century...
...common reason for seeing a doctor. It is the No. 1 reason people take medication. And yet for a variety of reasons, medical science is ill equipped to deal with pain. While the 20th century has brought remarkable advances in the treatment and in some cases the elimination of disease, doctors' understanding of pain is just beginning to emerge from the dark ages. "Pain is the weak link in modern medicine," says Dr. Josef Wang, director of the pain center at the Mayo Clinic. To begin with, medical students receive only the scantest introduction to the subject...
Physicians have long known that if a patient is assured that he will recover and is treated with sympathy, his pain will often disappear. In the same way, a simple sugar pill, or placebo, prescribed in place of drugs, can have a curative effect. In fact, before the 20th century, when doctors relied on bleedings and all sorts of dubious nostrums, most of medicine was a type of placebo (Latin for "I will please...
...this be Rigoletto? The curtain rises on a mid-20th century New York City hotel ballroom instead of a 16th century Mantuan ducal palazzo; the Duke and his courtiers are not nobles but crime lords, and Rigoletto is a bartender, not a jester. The second scene takes place in a Little Italy tenement where Rigoletto has secreted his daughter, Gilda, and where she is wooed by the Duke, who sports a high school warmup jacket. The finale is set in a seedy, Hopperesque waterfront dive. When the Duke sings his famous La donna e mobile aria, in English, he first...