Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less than half a mile across the water is Ellis Island, a darker, more 20th century place. The same pot of cash is subsidizing the renovation of the historic island and the transformation of its main building into a multimedia immigration museum. "Some people say we should concentrate on Miss Liberty," says Iacocca, chairman of the private Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, "and forget about Ellis Island, because the memories from there weren't too pleasant. They're wrong. We need both. This country was not built on hope alone. It took a lot of pain...
...them fight like Grant. If Reagan is afflicted by senility, some of the world's leaders might try a case of it. Whether Reagan will ultimately be judged a great President remains to be seen, but he has shown himself to be one of the strongest leaders of the 20th century...
...surprising, then, that CBS decided to re-release Gould recordings of Romantic-era music as the third volume of its ongoing Glenn Gould Legacy series. (The first two volumes contain music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn; a fourth, of 20th century works, will be released in September.) The assortment of music on this three-record set, released last month, is very odd for a Romantic piano music collection: three sonatinas by Jean Sibelius, an obscure sonata by Richard Strauss, two transcriptions by Gould of highlights from Wagner operas, and more conventional repertoire by Brahms and Grieg...
Written by Caryl Churchill, the play follows the sexual awakenings of a presumably typical British family. The first part of the play takes place in Africa in 1880, where the family is happily pursuing the life of the imperialist and the second 100 years take place in 20th century London. While the time gap is not explained in the play, a program note says that the family has aged only 25 years. To make things more confusing, the actors--almost all of whom were in drag in the first act--have played musical roles and are now cast more traditionally...
...celebrity in Mexico. When Alvaro Obregon swept into office as President, Rivera found he had an enthusiast in the Minister of Education, Jose Vasconcelos, who invited him back to Mexico to take part in a huge program of public painting. In Mexico and Russia, unlike most of the early 20th century world, a fresco could still be counted on for political impact. Mexico had a huge illiterate population, used to learning doctrine by looking at images. Painting had little or no competition from other media. It could be as direct a form of social speech as it had once been...