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...writing appear to fall short of his icon's legacy. Throughout Mailer, its subject appears to be without direction and confidence, but instead acting upon whatever spurs his imagination at the moment. While he has been a major figure in American literature in the second half of the 20th century, one wonders what would have become of Mailer if he had never published The Naked and the Dead at age 23. Although the success and brilliance of the novel secured him a position as writer for life, he was never able to match the popularity of his first book...
Central Square has been at the core of Cambridge, linking the residents of the surrounding neighborhoods to each other, throughout the 20th century...
When this happens, it will bring us full circle. A century ago, this country had a capitalist elite personified by such business titans as J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Then we spent the whole 20th century trying to replace it with other kinds of elites--two of them, to be specific. Now we're headed right back where we started...
This late-20th century American elite wasn't born; it was made. During the middle decades of the century, a group of influential university educators and foundation executives led by James Bryant Conant, the president of Harvard, undertook to unseat the Wasp elite, using the new multiple-choice college-admissions tests as an important tool. In some ways this project has turned out to be a remarkably successful bit of social engineering. The top universities still use heredity as a factor in admissions, but on the whole they have shifted from the raccoon-coat, football-weekend paradigm...
...ointments, of proms, allowances and slumber parties is still unknown in less developed countries. And until the reform of child-labor laws in the 1930s, the spread of suburbia in the 1940s and the rise of targeted youth marketing in the '50s, it was unknown here as well. Early 20th century adolescents were farmers, apprentices, students and soldiers--perhaps even wives and husbands--but not teenagers...