Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know whether African men recently transported to the New World considered themselves handsome or, more important, whether they considered African women beautiful in comparison with native American Indian women or immigrant European women. But one thing I know for sure: by the 20th century, really black skin on a woman was considered ugly in this country. In the 1950s this was particularly true among those who were exposed to college. Black skin was to be disguised at all costs. Since a black face is rather hard to disguise, many women took refuge in ludicrous makeup...
Tradition, some say, runs thick at Harvard. The men's squash team reaffirmed a tradition yesterday that is showing signs of becoming hoary from age by defeating Yale for the 20th consecutive year, this time with an 8-1 thrashing at Hemenway...
...Amalrik, dissident and author of "Involuntary Journey to Siberia" writes, "I don't think Americans can understand that censorship is ingrained in Soviet life. Do you know that you can go to prison for writing something about the 10th century that is considered unpatriotic and anti-state in the 20th century?" Joshua Rubenstein understands and he makes this clear...
...quarter of the drawings in the Fogg have never been exhibited before anywhere, and one third of them have never been shown in the United States. The works' novelty and secluded history have attracted many 20th-century art scholars and critics not only for the show, but also for a symposium the Saturday after the exhibit...
Chevreul's point is made splendidly and often in After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Photography, a show transplanted from the Petit Palais in Paris to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. There is still a tendency to think of photography mainly as a 20th century phenomenon, with only a handful of notable pioneers in the 19th-in France, Nadar himself; in England, Julia Margaret Cameron, master of brooding portraits and symbolic tableaux, Mathew Brady, engraving the Civil War on the mind of America. After Daguerre is a rich reminder that though photographers, still hobbled by glacially slow...