Word: 20th
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...least, inopportune. When he died last week at 94 in the Spanish capital, Segovia had put the guitar on a near equal footing with the piano, violin and cello as a solo concert instrument; he had also won for himself a place among the most influential performers of the 20th century...
...years ago today/ Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play." So begins the prescient title song of the Beatles' landmark album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In London last week, Paul McCartney was back at Abbey Road Studios to pay homage to the 20th anniversary of a record that has sold 15 million copies and whose lyrics evoked comparisons with Tennyson and T.S. Eliot. EMI Records, for its part, celebrated the occasion by releasing the album on compact disc. As a group of well-wishers and Wife Linda watched, McCartney cut a cake shaped like the drum...
After two of its popular associate professors--both experts in 20th century American political history--failed to receive tenure this year, the American wing came under intense scrutiny. The department rejected Associate Professor of History Bradford A. Lee. Although Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan Brinkley received the majority of his department's approval, Spence ended his tenure bid because he felt too many prominent senior department members had opposed...
Porte calls the present situation in the department "screwball." He adds, "The preponderance of students are in the 19th and 20th century British and American literature. But we are very weak in American literature...
Bercovitch was the last senior level Americanist appointed in the department until Visiting Professor of English Phillip Fisher, an expert in 19th and 20th century literature at Brandeis University, received and accepted an offer this year. Porte called this appointment "imperative...