Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last night's speech by the 58-year-old Moynihan, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, came on the 20th anniversary of his controversial report as assistant secretary of labor linking weak family structure with poverty among Blacks...
Discovery of the finely wrought objects was kept under wraps, awaiting the beginning of the 20th anniversary celebration of Jerusalem's Israel Museum, which last week placed them on display. They include the oldest cloth fragments and painted mask ever found: a life-size limestone human face decorated with bands of red and green. Also dug from the cave: basket and box fragments made of woven rushes waterproofed with asphalt, delicate thumbnail- size human heads and a rodent figurine, carved wood and bone tools, clay, stone and wooden beads and a human skull adorned with asphalt. Perhaps most remarkable...
...spirit." We look at the face and ignore the work. Celebrities "subvert rationalism in politics." We neglect the issues and vote for the image most skillfully packaged on TV. In every department of life, celebrities are a "corruption," Schickel's label for the shallowness and glitz of late 20th century civilization. With considerable reason, he blames celebrities and the cameras without which they could not exist for the decline of the English language. After all, what need does a race divided between paparazzi and voyeurs have for the fine distinction of words...
...invitation of Jerusalem Mayor Ted Kollek, the exhibit will journey to Jerusalem this fall as part of a celebration marking his 20th year as mayor. Kollek saw the exhibit last spring when he visited Harvard to receive an honorary degree...
...Crimson foretold a strong league campaign with its performance in California over Spring Break. Playing against several top-20 schools, the netmen who were ranked 20th in the nation in a recent poll won five of their eight matches and finished fifth at the University of California-Irvine tournament...