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...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder When you've had enough of Rome's ancient ruins, Caravaggio paintings and Bernini buildings, drop into the De Chirico House-Museum for a bracing look at the life and work of a 20th century master. Giorgio de Chirico fused a classical eye with a disquieting imagination to create Metaphysical art - like the eerie Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (1914), which depicts the shadowy figure of a girl rolling a hoop into a piazza - and later breathed new life into the Baroque. De Chirico...
...logic behind that result is simple. Because an individual’s use of DormAid does not lessen the quality of life of those who choose not to use it, it should be a viable option for the former. As the 20th century has proved a disastrous experiment for Marxism and centrally-planned normative dictates, our campus should be respectful of our fellow students’ freedom of choice and not unreasonably prescribe personal consumption preferences as social ideals. It is DormAid’s mission to increase the quality of life on campus. We hope that in the coming...
...Early 20th century Europe was in a situation eerily similar to ours; free trade reigned, passports were not required for travel between states, and democracy and democratic rule were everywhere ascendant. Even traditionally conservative Germany was moving in a democratic direction, as the parliament became more representative, powerful, and willing to confront the Kaiser. The most “brutally repressive” political regime of that time—Czarist Russia—was admittedly harsh, yet in over one hundred years it killed less than four thousand people...
...clear, though, that the inhabitants of early 20th century Europe were blind to forces right in front of them, forces that would soon send their entire world crashing down in flames. Trench warfare would soon break out in a continent that had not known generalized war between the great powers since the time of Napoleon, and it would prove to be wildly more destructive than any previous conflict. Just as drastic was in the increase in political violence: In the first year of Communist rule in Russia ,more people were executed by the regime than during the entire 19th century...
Dickens was the first novelist who really nailed life in the modern city, and Gaffney's Manhattan, with its horse carts and street urchins, is still recognizably Dickensian. But the New York of Thomas Kelly's Empire Rising, set in 1930, is very much a 20th century beast: caffeinated, electrified, car and money and baseball crazy, with subways rumbling in its bowels and skyscrapers sprouting from its scalp. Kelly's hero, a good-natured Irishman named Michael Briody, is busy riveting together the skeleton of the Empire State Building, which at the peak of construction grew by a floor...