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Dates: during 1990-1999
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So did it take a Hitler, a mortal threat, to move the Allied democracies from complacent enclaves to the global powerhouses that by century's end would embrace most of the world's people? Here is a place to draw the line. "It may be true that we've got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Necessary Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

However much stronger the Western democracies were after the war, as they went on to discredit not only fascism but communism as well, that strength still came at a terrible cost. "How much happier a world it would be if one did not have to mount crusades against racism, segregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Necessary Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

If we must place the century in a time capsule, there are better candidates for Person of the Century than its greatest criminal. The large characters, heroes and villains alike, do set the scales on which we balance progress. Evil may be a powerful force, a seductive idea, but is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Necessary Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

It's such a simple premise, and Abbott and Costello drive it about 20 ft. into the ground, but "Who's on First?" is not only the century's most famous comedy bit; it's also the best. It's absurdism mixed with the easy pleasure of confusion, and Bud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Eames took technology created to meet a wartime need (for splints) and used it to make something elegant, light and comfortable. Much copied but never bettered. RUNNERS-UP The S-1 steam locomotive by Raymond Loewy; the Swatch watch

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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