Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is, to me, an even more fascinating evolution. Starting with Ford's assembly line, the 20th century was the first in human history that was shaped by mass manufacturing. Instead of the tailored and crafted products of previous centuries, we were blessed (and sometimes cursed) with products that were mass-produced based on standardized designs, mass-marketed through new forms of mass media and spewed forth in cookie-cutter form from big factories and studios. This included not only consumer goods like Ford's cars, but everything from William Levitt's suburban homes to David Sarnoff's nationally broadcast...
After three years of sifting the great from the near great, Philips has just released the first set of 30 double CDs in its ambitious Great Pianists of the 20th Century series. When the last set is issued in August 1999, the compilation will total 250 hours of music on 200 discs--the largest CD edition ever released...
...General Motors president Charles E. Wilson ("What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country") and, alas, Wall Street's Gordon Gekko ("Greed...is good. Greed is right. Greed works") in defining and defending the 20th century as the century of business...
Meticulously researched and carefully crafted, Hochschild's book is an extraordinarily powerful account of one of the most horrific events of the 20th century. Without compromising the subject's integrity, he tells an unforget-table story layered with subtlety and unexpected tenderness...
...with most major problems of the late 20th century, it's the media's fault. Each February, a cabal of toy hawkers and toy reporters huddle at Toy Fair in (where else?) New York City. The hawkers try to coax the reporters into naming their toy the "hottest." Virtually every newspaper and TV station runs some version of this hot-new-toy story, which entices visually and appeals to journalism's need to find what's next. This has happened before (more about Cabbage Patch Kids in a minute), but the creation of the Furby--more important, the invention...