Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these two events to be occurring at the same time was remarkable but not coincidental. The interaction between what has been happening in Beijing and Moscow may lead future historians to look back on May 1989 as the most momentous month in the second half of the 20th century. Forces of epochal transformation are bubbling up from below in China, while they are being marshaled from above in the Soviet Union. But in both cases these changes are driven by a recognition that Communism has failed its subjects, the people, and that the only solution is far-reaching reform...
...debacle in Panama is a reminder that the U.S., to its everlasting credit but also to its occasional grief, was never cut out for imperialism. Even the vestige of such an adventure at the beginning of the 20th century is enough to complicate American domestic politics and foreign policy alike at the end of the century. Teddy Roosevelt not only dug the big ditch but helped carve out the little nation around it by supporting secessionists in a malaria-ridden province of Colombia. But no good deed in the pursuit of empire goes unpunished. The legacy that T.R. left...
...into the sky, just as it always has. Bison and elk graze side by side on Swan Lake Flats, and the evening chorus of coyotes calling one another to the hunt echoes hauntingly again across canyons. And soon the RVs, the Conestoga wagons of the late 20th century, will be circling up in campgrounds during summer evenings...
Using such terms such as "hero" and "the real revolutionary of the 20th century," Goldman repeatedly assured the reporters that he supported Gorbachev and his attempts to change the Soviet Union...
...understand if he were simply larger than life or what his detractors claimed: a self-aggrandizing charlatan. But he took no pleasure in his notoriety; he ran from it. The Selected Letters adds another interpretation to an already overwrought tale. The age demanded a hero, Lawrence qualified, and the 20th century then got what it deserved: a loner, an ascetic, a man who might have been happier as a medieval monk than as the public cynosure he became. No paragon in his own eyes, Lawrence nonetheless remains a haunting presence in the contemporary consciousness, an indissoluble mixture of weaknesses...