Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nicholson, one of five fellows at the center lecturing this year, addressed a small audience in the Sperry Room. The event, titled "I am Modern, Hear Me Roar: The Emergence of the Psychological Self in the Early 20th Century United States," included readings by Nicholson of her book in progress...
Next semester, if you decide to take a class featuring some of the finest novels written in the 20th century, you may find yourself selecting from a whole new breed of pricey paperbacks. Random House has just started publishing quality paperback versions of selections from its list of the 100 best novels written since the turn of the century, a list that has provoked widespread criticism, debate and, among the more media-savvy, a halfhearted shrug of the shoulders at the lengths to which some publishers will go to drum up a little business...
...that Harry did was ask the board of the Modern Library, an association that oversees the publication of many renowned works of 20th century literature in attractive, hardcover volumes, to choose, from an unlimited field of candidates, the 100 best novels written in English since 1900. No big deal--especially since the board is made up of respectable thinkers and writers including Daniel J. Boorstin, A.S. Byatt, Shelby Foote, Edmund Morris, William Styron and Gore Vidal...
Stein's story did not lack for 20th century drama. Born into a German Jewish family on Yom Kippur 1891, she had declared herself an atheist by her teens. In her 20s she became one of the first German women to earn a Ph.D., specializing in the philosophical subdiscipline of phenomenology. Introduced to Catholicism through Christian phenomenologists, she was baptized at age 30, and 11 years later, under her new name, she took the vows of a Carmelite nun. Sister Teresa's stance on Jewish issues was predictably mixed: she wrote a letter to the Pope deploring anti-Semitism...
...size of Serra's pieces that holds you, though that is in itself impressive; rather, it's their blunt originality, a drama of spatial conception that seems quite new but is presented matter-of-factly. In Serra's view the most important change in 20th-century sculpture occurred when it ceased to be statuary, when it came down off its pedestal, the plinth that isolated it from the rest of the world, and entered the space, public or private, in which its audience lived and moved. Walking through these works--from outside to inside and back again...