Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advent of TV or the Pill more important than war or politics? A new book assesses what mattered in the 20th century...
...gets to be the managing editor of the New York Times can safely be described as a man blessed with self-confidence. E. Clifton Daniel, now 75, demonstrated that quality anew last week when he ventured to name the ten most important headlines of the 20th century. He took this bold gamble in connection with an international project called Chronicle of the 20th Century, for which Daniel served as an editor and which undertakes to tell the history of the era in headlines and quasi news stories. Daniel...
DAVID Feurzeig '87 ushered in an auspicious new season of Dunster House chamber concerts last Sunday afternoon with a recital of 20th-century American piano music. Perhaps the most impressive feature of this concert was its program, which consisted almost entirely of works composed by Dunster residents...
...achieved as respiration. If the man simply breathes his stuff out, can he be producing anything substantial? He can, of course. Vonnegut's rueful, wondering satire in Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano and half a dozen other books says "Goodbye, better luck next time" to human society in the late 20th century. That said, however, an admirer must admit that Vonnegut's novelizing occasionally ticks on reflexively when there seems to be nothing in particular on his mind. So with Bluebeard, whose hero is a wealthy, one-eyed old man named Rabo Karabekian, a magazine illustrator in his youth, then...
Outside experts, not Harvard faculty, will teach General Education 148, "The Asian Immigrant in American History since 1850," and General Education 154, "Puerto Rico in the 20th Century," because the courses are being offered on a trial basis, Lewis said...