Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AUNT ONCE TOLD me that after seeing Gone With the Wind for the 20th time, her heart still went aflutter when Rhett walked out the door at the end. And a friend of mine confessed that after seven viewings she still was grossed out by Harold's bizarre suicide attempts in Harold and Maude. Now I too belong to their fan club of repetition. After seeing HMS Pinafore--a Gilbert and Sullivan musical comedy--for the sixth time. I still thoroughly basked in its bubbly brilliance...
Though artists like Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass have helped break down the barriers between the classical and popular through such devices as amplification, those barriers still exist. And Rockwell, by choosing to emphasize the experimental over the popular excludes the music that has most influenced the lives of 20th century Americans Indeed, the only truly popular composer included here is Neil Young, who hardly warrants the messianic status Rockwell has bestowed on him. Dylan would probably have been a more appropriate example of the marriage of art and popular tastes...
DIED. William Henry Tunner, 76, Air Force general and genius of military air transport; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Va. He commanded three of the 20th century's historic airlifts: the World War II cargo transport over the Himalayan "Hump" from India to China, the massive 1948-49 Berlin operation that moved 13,000 tons a day of coal and food to the Soviet-blockaded city, and the Korean War's Combat Cargo Command that air-dropped supplies to U.S. troops trapped in North Korea by the Chinese...
According to Peter Walsh, public relations and publications officer of the Fogg, the donations make up "one of the most important 20th-century groups the museum owns." He added that the works hold a "special interest" because Sert was personally acquainted with both Leger and Miro...
...hundred years from now, seminarians will continue to study heretical teachings like Jansenism of the 1600s. To that list will be added "Mansourism," a 20th century heresy that taught its adherents to place civil law above the Gospel...