Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...20th anniversary of the student takeover of University Hall, the Conservative Club comandeers the Business School's Baker Library demanding admission to Goldman Sachs' two-year analyst training program. After an unexpected scuffle over transcript files erupts, Harvard police fax the protestors a memo urging them to stop the violence. The demonstrators finally agree to leave the building in exchange for the restoration of ROTC on campus and the Pledge of Allegiance made mandatory at the beginning of each class...
...execution was the 20th in Florida since it resumed executions in 1979; 106 murderers have been put to death in the United States since capital punishment was restored...
...installed by the early 1800s in the elaborate metaphorical drawings and prints of Runge. His paeans to innocence, with their flying babies and virgins and lilies, waver close to visionary kitsch. And of course the attitudes to nature and society that permeate German expressionism were not invented in the 20th century: they are Romanticism topped up with more anxiety...
Gossip columnist Liz Smith summed it up when she wrote, "Even if Trump is the truest, most flamboyant child of Mammon yet produced at this waning moment of the 20th century, I like his style." New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger took a graver view: "He has yet to commission a really serious work of architecture. If he has a style, it is flashiness. It's a malady of the age. Trump just represents it the most." Characteristically, Trump responded by sneering that Goldberger was unqualified to judge his buildings because he wore cheap suits...
...treasures from the East. Here too in 1967 devout Marxists won independence for their moonscape land at the mouth of the Red Sea. After 128 years of British colonial rule, they were determined to use the precepts of socialist orthodoxy to yank a remote Arab nation into the 20th century. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, set up a Moscow- style government and forged close ties with its mentor...