Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brenssons ran for the stairwell, only to be met by other panicky guests and a thick wall of smoke. "We rushed back up," Brensson said. The family climbed onto the 20th-floor balcony that encircles the hotel. There three men helped lift them and others onto the top of the building. Throughout the late afternoon, six helicopters hovered in the air, plucking survivors from the roof...
Tonight We Improvise opens A.R.T.'s 20th season and typifies the way Brustein's troupe has alternately exhilarated, frustrated and befuddled -- but rarely bored -- its audiences while building a reputation as perhaps the nation's most prestigious regional theater. Although Brustein routinely disparages Broadway, some of his productions end up there, including the 1983 Pulitzer prizewinner, 'Night, Mother. The troupe received Broadway's highest accolade, a Tony Award, last June. A.R.T.'s luster has been augmented by its affiliations with universities -- Yale from 1966 to mid-1979 (another ensemble now performs as the Yale Repertory Theater) and since then Harvard...
...green ceramic and patches of glass block, with a gargantuan rectangular entrance portal. The architects have so overdone their contextual homage to Hollywood Deco-Babylon that the effect verges on camp. Once inside, things recover: the galleries are large, well proportioned and properly lit, and LACMA's collection of 20th century art -- already the best on the West Coast -- has been enlarged in the past few years with some distinguished purchases and gifts, particularly in the areas of cubism and German expressionism. Furthermore, the first show in the Anderson building, an extensive anthology by LACMA's senior curator of 20th...
...Robert Fludd's Utriusque cosmi? The answer, as anyone can attest after seeing the opening exhibition, "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985," in the Los Angeles County Museum's new wing is in each case the latter. The good news, one might say, is that early 20th century abstract art, long regarded by a suspicious public as basically meaningless and without a subject, turns out to have a very distinct and pervasive one -- the last mutation, in fact, of religious experience in the visual arts. The other news is that spiritualism is so arcane and culturally eccentric that...
Dubois later became a major spokesman for the Black movement in the early 20th century, sharing much of the spotlight with another recipient of a Harvard degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington was the first Black man awarded an honorary degree by Harvard. His distinguished career as a spokesman for Black equality later prompted Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter to elect him as its first Black honorary member...