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...Einstein, of course, who turned physics on its head in the early 20th century by asking—and answering—fundamental questions about classical Newtonian physics. Before his time, many physicists were claiming that the important questions in physics had already been answered and were urging graduate students to consider other career choices...
...marriage. (The show is closed, but he and Falco, who played a nude scene together, are now tabloid fodder.) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was the first play, and still one of the best, in August Wilson's projected 10-play cycle on the African-American experience in the 20th century. But couldn't we at least have waited until he finished the project (No. 9 opens in Chicago this week) before starting all over again--with Charles Dutton playing the same part he created...
...first Arts First took place, featuring 40 performances. The year coincided with significant anniversaries of many arts organizations on campus: the Office for the Arts’ (OFA) 20th, the Carpenter Center’s 30th, the Glee Club’s 135th and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra’s 185th...
Kosman’s book collection, “‘To Arlie:’ An Intergenerational Collection of 20th Century Boys’ Books,” was dedicated to her grandfather, who grew up as an orphan in the 1920s and died at 40 years...
While many humanitarian activists correctly decry the horrors of war, too little attention is given to the fact that governments are far more dangerous and violent towards their own citizens than to foreign civilians, troops or states. During the 20th century, around 40 million people died in international and civil wars. Yet nearly 200 million, about five times as many, were killed by their own government for their race, religion, imputed political dissent, to fill a murder quota for no reason...