Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racketeering, conspiracy, tax evasion, mail fraud, wire fraud and trading with the enemy could earn Rich and Green prison sentences totaling 325 years each, fines of more than $500,000 and confiscation of millions of dollars in assets. One of Rich's holdings is a co-ownership in 20th Century-Fox, which his company controls jointly with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis...
Jesse Jackson's bid for a presidential candidacy reflects the maturation of Afro-American politics. No claimant group in American politics--whether interest groups like labor and farmers in early 20th century, women today, or ethnic groups today like Blacks and Hispanics--can consider itself at the maturation stage in political status until it can make waves in the sea of candidates for the election to the presidency of the United States. Among several ways of doing this is to launch a candidate from the ranks of a claimant group, hoping to gain the nomination of a major party, influence...
Five thousand people from Eastern Massachusetts walked the same way as 250,000 Blacks and whites, dressed in Sunday suits and bathing suits, arrayed in families and interest groups, all marching on Washington to commemorate the 20th anniversary of King's "I Have a Dream" speech and rediscover the moral impulse of the civil rights movement. But back at home almost a month later, as representatives of civil rights, religious, labor, peace, women's environmental and elderly groups meet to chart their futures, few leaders dare predict they'll stay together...
...last of the great Renaissance snobs, a generalist capable of insufferable expertise on everything from Spanish wines to spinnakers. But the making of such a handsomely knowledgeable, or even pseudo-knowledgeable, character requires family money and leisure of a kind not often available in the late 20th century. "A child's education," Oliver Wendell Holmes once remarked, "should begin at least one hundred years before he was born." It does not take quite that much marination to make a great snob, since the secret of snobbery is mere plausibility, the appearance of knowledge and breeding. Still, in a busy...
...agonized at home in Rhode Island over the grand alternatives of returning to a mediocre school experience or counting failure as a model in one more city, my grandparents phoned. For the 20th time since I'd left Harvard, they deluged me with dire predictions of what kind of future lay in store for a college dropout--no job, no money, no place in society, no friends, and, of course, no respect from Korean relatives. I was galvanized. School was definitely out of the question. I moved to New York immediately...