Word: 20th
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Cagney began his career as a burlesque actor in the early part of the 20th century, and made his first movie. "Sinners' Holiday," in 1930. He won an Academy Award in 1942 as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy." and returned from a 20 year retirement in 1981 to film "Ragtime...
Perhaps the world of the late 20th century is so interrelated as to preclude such a straightforward approach to foreign policy. However, the best solutions to the most complex problems still present themselves in the simplest form...
...heroine who ends up a common prostitute. Zimmermann deliberately invoked the shade of his illustrious predecessor; the challenge he set himself was to improve upon the originals. That he failed is less a comment on his ability than a tribute to Berg's genius: Wozzeck (1922) epitomized 20th century alienation in its tale of a miserable soldier ground to pieces beneath the wheels of an uncaring universe, while Lulu (1935) thoroughly explored the expressive possibilities inherent in the twelve-tone system. Each is, in its own way, a definitive statement...
...latter-day Wagner gallantly reaching for the 20th century's Gesamtkunstwerk (all-embracing work of art). But he fell far short. Given the present-day disinclination of opera houses to produce untried, experimental and expensive new works, as well as a changing musical aesthetic that now looks upon serialism merely as a compositional tool and not an end in itself, it is unlikely that Die Soldaten will spawn any successors. -By Michael Walsh
...Iron Age comes ... A month ago, it was the Stone Age ... digging vegetables with wooden shovels and clobbering rats with flint axes. We're moving right along. It'll be 1832 in a few days! By the way, people, I'm planning to skip the 20th century altogether...