Word: 20th
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Later, as Israel's policies became more controversial, the Holocaust was left as "virtually the only common denominator of American Jewish identity in the late 20th century." It was dragooned in support of such Jewish preoccupations as the (bogus, claims Novick) "new anti-Semitism" of the 1970s and the real (but bloodless) threat of intermarriage. Its appeal to Americans at large grew as the nation's post-Vietnam mood turned dystopian and identity politics put a premium on victimhood. The best example of the resulting crossover appeal was the influential nbc mini-series Holocaust in 1978, intensively promoted by Jewish...
...this last Harvard Commencement of the 20th century, the United States stands at a singular position of power and prosperity. But we, the Class of 1999, must do more than simply profit for ourselves. We have the mandate and, indeed, the privilege, to be universal in our thinking and our actions: to embrace the difference that make us human...
...America at the end of the 19th century, as at the end of the 20th, suffered all the symptoms of a social capital deficit. Back then, crime rates were rising; the gap between rich and poor was growing; there was degradation in the cities; people experienced political alienation and sensed corruption in the system...
...think that anyone could have predicted at the beginning of the 20th century where our sciences and humanities have gone (e.g. string theory, genetic engineering, gender studies, African-American studies). I will not predict this for the 21st. The new century will be our students' adventure, as the expiring century has been ours." Dean of Undergraduate Education
Morton Keller, a professor of history at Brandeis University who is currently writing a history of Harvard, says Rudenstine's weakness is simply part of a cycle in the 20th century Harvard presidency...