Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hillela quits school and is on her own, drifting somewhere in Johannesburg. Eventually she takes up with an antigovernment journalist and then, during the summer of 1963, flees the country with him after the cottage they share has been ransacked by police. She is some months shy of her 20th birthday...
...exemplary one. The professor emeritus now regards political activism as a diversion from his primary interest in pedagogy. But the conclusion of his 20th book belies that claim: those who are indifferent to vital issues "owe the intellectual and cultural freedoms in which they luxuriate to the commitment and sacrifices of others." Even his extensive list of opponents would have to concede that the spirit of those "others" is crystallized in Sidney Hook's long, retributive and triumphantly out-of-step career...
...door swings open, I step inside and press 27 quickly. Just as I think my escape is assured, the woman squeezes her body between the closing doors, forcing them to swing open in deference to her protruding belly. I then watch in horror as she attempts to press the 20th floor button. She hits 17, then 19, 22, 24, 26, 18, and then 12. I resolve that people whose fingers cannot function according to their will should ask for assistance in elevators, otherwise they deserve...
...transportation may help explain why Gardner was never fully accepted by the academic and critical circles of his time. Some critics, citing Gardner's talent for characterizing the physical detail and philosophical outlook of Middle America, classed this medievalist-turned-author among the top American writers of the 20th century. Many others, however, found that beneath a flashy surface humour and topicality, Gardner's works lacked the depth of Ulysses or The Magic Mountain...
...than 2,000 times before, the jurors and lawyers dutifully comply. Into courtroom 14 of the St. Clair County building in Belleville, Ill., strides the Hon. Richard Goldenhersh, presiding judge in the matter of Frances E. Kemner et al. v. Monsanto Co., Case No. 80-L-970 in the 20th Circuit, State of Illinois. The judge nods a greeting, settles into his leather chair, and trial day No. 534 begins. Another record...