Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offered the Ayatullah hospitality when he sought refuge in Paris in 1978. Khomeini, who called Banisadr "my son," thought that the owl-eyed intellectual could provide a scientific rationale for the Islamic reforms he proposed to put into effect, thus marrying the 20th and 7th centuries. Following Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran in 1979, Banisadr seemed to have the Ayatullah's full confidence. Though Banisadr was elected President with 75% of the vote in 1980, and soon earned the support of the army as its commander in chief, he was ultimately unable to withstand the fundamentalists...
Those who found him inspiring were right. Those who find him inhibiting are also right, for Rodin was a man of 19th century amplitude and not 20th century doubt. What sculptor, today, could one expect to possess such reserves of feeling, such an indifference to the errors of his own fecundity, or so unrestrained a tragic sense? To compare him with Michelangelo is not, in the end, impertinent, for Rodin was one of the last artists to live and work in the belief that making sculpture-despite the potboilers and failures in his output-was a moral act, that...
...extremely delicate procedure, which had been successfully carried out only once before, in Sweden in 1978, was performed a year ago by a team led by Dr. Thomas Kerenyi at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center. The attempt was made in the 20th week of pregnancy, when the fetus weighs about 10 oz. and is about 10 in. long. A series of pictures taken during the earlier ultrasound scanning helped locate the abnormal twin, though not with certainty; Kerenyi put his chances at "much better than 50-50." Doctors then used sound waves to pinpoint the tiny beating heart...
...Poetry is power," observed Osip Mandelstam, Russia's great 20th century poet who died some time in the late '30s in a Soviet concentration camp. "Poetry is respected only in this country -people are killed for it. There's no place where more people are killed...
...Author Russell Hoban's story. Hoban, 55, who has written children's books and three previous novels, sets Riddley Walker in the southeast corner of England, some 2,500 years into a badly damaged and degraded future. A nuclear holocaust, which occurred near the end of the 20th century, has forced civilization to start over again at ground zero. Progress has been slow. People huddle together in small enclaves, fighting off the elements, packs of killer dogs and occasionally, one another. A semblance of central government exists in the person of a "Pry Mincer" and "Wes Mincer...