Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human being's intellitence with the perspicuity expected of a careful scientist, showing where other researchers have erred before. He acquired the data that others had used to reach racist conclusions, recalculated the computations and reveals the mistakes and incorrect assumptions. Gould's reopening of the 19th- and early-20th-century studies could help close an era of racist preconceptions about intelligence...
...only nations are being armed. Inevitably, weapons flow into the hands of self-proclaimed freedom fighters, terrorists and fanatics and, alas, the children whose legacy it is to be born into a world of arms. One of the 20th century's enduring images may be that of a sad-eyed adolescent cuddling an automatic rifle as if it were...
...late 20th century, technology has immeasurably complicated the business of gossip. Television, radio, the people pages of newspapers and magazines have all conspired to create international class gossip. This macrogossip detaches the usual human taletelling from its local roots. The result is sometimes a resonant emptiness, the feeling of futility that might overcome the soul after watching Bob Hope and Brooke Shields host a television special. Macrogossip tends to be exemplary, cautionary, ceremonial and merely entertaining-like public hangings...
Where is America's lost innocence of the early 20th century? Henry Ratliff
...home. Perhaps it even served to fulfill a fantasy in which Anwar el-Sadat, as the "father of Egypt," singlehandedly made peace with the hated enemy. Such debate is in the end irrelevant, for Sadat's journey, his ultimate quest, stands as one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. This fact cannot be overstated, for in one deft move, Sadat put a thaw to a seemingly rock-solid antagonism...