Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further south, where they do things big, more than 12,000 students from the University of Texas and residents of Austin mingled for the 20th annual celebration of Eeyore's birthday Eeyore is the perpetually gloomy donkey that appears in A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" books...
This disembodied voice is speaking in the present tense, now, late in the 20th century, a contemporary witness to old deeds. Hoban invents a spokesman for an entire epoch, one who has not only suffered the mutilation and death of his body but has consciously endured some of the awful burdens of history since those events: "I am a microscopic chip in that vast circuitry in which are recorded all of the variations and permutations thus far. Not all of my experience is available for recall by my Pilgermann identity, only that in which the energy of the input...
...good book also pops up in Class Reunion, by Rona Jaffe '51, a 1979 novel that follows four women from their years at Radcliffe in the 50s to their 20th reunion. The most adventurous of the quartet is Annabel, who goes on a freshman year date with a young man named Richard, by reputation the most experienced member of the Harvard freshman class...
Allard and Martelli continued their success in the nightcap, as each one smashed a homer off loser Torn Heckard. Allard's blast was his 20th career round trip, a new school record...
Industry and business can proceed in a fluorescent seasonlessness. Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68° all year. Air conditioning is one of the serious accomplishments of the 20th century. It produced the Sunbelt. The enclosed suburban shopping mall prefigures those cities of the future that will be entirely domed, like a pheasant under glass. No seasonal variations need be endured...