Word: 20th
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When the Metropolitan Museum opens its new Lila Acheson Wallace Wing for 20th century art next week, New York City's role as the world's main showplace for modern painting and sculpture may fairly be said to have reached its saturation point. After the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum, this is the fourth major institution on the island of Manhattan given over to collecting, showing, classifying and presenting ideas about the art of this century -- not counting the hundreds of commercial galleries and dozens of "alternative spaces" with which the city is studded...
...Digest, who was the largest donor, cost $26 million to build and will require an additional $2 million a year for operating expenses. One does not go spending such amounts on the marginal and the controversial -- on what modernism used to be when the chairman of the Met's 20th century department, William S. Lieberman, 62, formerly of MOMA, was scarcely a gleam in his Irish mother...
...right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting...
...states were eager to expand their arsenals. Moreover, the rise in oil prices gave them billions to spend on whatever weapons they desired. "That's when the middlemen like Khashoggi really started to make their killings," says one Middle Eastern arms dealer. "It was the gold rush of the 20th century. Every con man in the world was in Arabia." Between 1970 and 1975, Lockheed alone paid Khashoggi $106 million in commissions. During this same period, he is said to have collected hundreds of millions from other corporations. Khashoggi, says Max Helzel, then vice president of Lockheed's international marketing...
...second half of the 20th century has been full of uneasy trade-offs and Faustian bargains. One after another, life's most intimate and privileged matters -- sexual relations, conception, birth and death -- have been delivered to the unsanctified ground of science and commerce. The results may be welcome: the laboratory study of sex leads to treatments for sexual dysfunction; technologies of fertility give hope to the childless; mechanical organs offer the chance of longer life. But even as the gains are counted, the reservations mount. Even when the mind assents, the heart sometimes shivers...