Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women's cross country 20th at IC4As...
...best buildings of the 1910s and '20s, buildings on the cusp between the neoclassical and the modern -- early, excitingly unsettled modernism, before assembly-line imitation gave austerity a bad name. The work of the younger generation, then, may be backward-looking, but its inspirations are antiquity and the early 20th century, not the 18th and 19th centuries. Quaintness does not excite...
...afford to wait, and Missouri's Supreme Court was asked to rule immediately. On Wednesday the court refused, and the paper shut down. Thus ended a publication that began its life supporting abolition and became one of the nation's most prestigious journals in the late 19th and early 20th century. More recently it has reflected Publisher Prentis' born-again Fundamentalism in its editorials. St. Louis joins the swelling ranks of one-newspaper towns; the surviving Post- Dispatch has about twice the Globe-Democrat's circulation...
...characters are an engaging assortment of dreamers and bored intellectuals. The atmospheres are tumid with unreleased passion, and there are ample supplies of tea and sympathy. Unlike the lives and works of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, subjects of other Henri Troyat biographies, Chekhov's belong to the 20th century, an age of fretful spirits and melancholy skepticism. These impulses guide his hundreds of stories, his theatrical masterpieces (The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard) and especially his letters. "You ask me what life is," he wrote his wife shortly before dying of tuberculosis in 1904. "That...
...unusual target. Edward Austin Tracy, 55, a writer of erotic love poetry, was kidnaped last week in Muslim West Beirut by a pro-Iranian Shi'ite group calling itself the Revolutionary Justice Organization. Tracy, who was accused of being a U.S. spy, became the seventh American and 20th foreign hostage in Lebanon...