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...Democratic Party nominated a slew of New Yorkers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Tammany Hall was the powerhouse of the state's big-city ethnic base. But the Republicans tapped New Yorkers too --Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas Dewey--as did significant third parties: former President Millard Fillmore headed the anti-immigrant American Party ticket in 1856. Some New York candidates went straight from the campaign trail to the footnotes--Horatio Seymour, anyone?--but four New Yorkers managed to win eight presidential elections: Martin Van Buren (1836), Grover Cleveland (1884, 1892), Theodore Roosevelt...
...Shortly following the announcement in December of 2003, former Spanish Development Minister Francisco Álvarez Cascos likened the project to those of the Suez Canal in the 19th century and the Panama Canal in the 20th century. But unlike those grand feats of engineering and technological prowess, the building of the Gibraltar Tunnel seems more like a symbolic endeavor that the world can do without...
...many ways, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. Coney Island has fallen long and hard from its apex in the early 20th century, when its grandiose rides and spectacles--it once featured a Lilliputian village populated with 300 midgets--were a must-see, even for A-list tourists like Charles Lindbergh and Sigmund Freud, who supposedly declared Coney Island the only part of America that interested him. In the decades that followed, TV and air travel provided other options for escape, as parts of the neighborhood were razed for public housing. Revival-minded artists have partly displaced...
...Later that evening, Shultz would deliver a speech of his own at an event hosted by the American Academy in Berlin, marking the 20th anniversary of the Reagan address. As our plates were being cleared, I asked why "Tear Down this Wall" remains more resonant than any of the thousands of Presidential speeches delivered in the two decades since Reagan went to Berlin. Shultz sipped some green tea. "It's become famous, first of all, because what he called for happened. If you look back to the day after the speech, or the month after, I don't think...
...20th century saw the rise of Modernism and brilliant but difficult and allusive writers like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. (Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was first published in Poetry magazine.) Poems became less like high-end pop songs and more like math problems to be solved. They turned into the property of snobs and professors. They started to feel like homework. "It's thought of as a subject to be taught instead of simply an art to be enjoyed," says Christian Wiman, Poetry's editor...