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Henry Luce, the founder of this magazine, is to me a towering figure of this century because he understood these two strands: the value of a citizenry that shared a common ground of information, but also the individual empowerment that comes from new ways of disseminating ideas. That is one reason we wrestled (trying to ignore our own conflict of interest) with putting him on this list. Though he didn't get on in the end, his spirit permeates this issue and the entire TIME 100 series, which is guided by another of his principles: telling the history...
Netscape's software did that. So well, in fact, that Microsoft--which manages to play the heavy in every computer-industry drama--moved in and proceeded to pound our darling company into the ground. While Barksdale publicly displayed bravado--There's plenty of room for both of us! he declared--he was moving swiftly on two fronts. He turned to the Justice Department for antitrust relief, and he started looking for an exit strategy. So while the district court in Washington moved at its glacial pace to determine whether Microsoft had violated the public trust, Netscape scampered at Net speed...
Commercially, this worked out beautifully for him. Most people prefer their entertainments to embrace the comfortably cute rather than the disturbingly acute--especially when they're bringing the kids. Movie critics started ignoring him, and social critics began hectoring him, because his work ground off the rough, emotionally instructive edges of the folk- and fairy-tale tradition on which it largely drew, robbing it of "the pulse of life under the skin of events," as one critic...
...provide 2,350 housing units for defense workers in Norfolk, Va. Once the fighting ended, they brought the lessons of that experience to 1,000 acres of potato farms on New York's Long Island 25 miles east of Manhattan. On July 1, 1947, Levitt, then 40, broke ground on the first of what would be 17,000 homes...
...larger culture, Levitt's achievement was contested ground. Levittown entered 20th century folklore as the place where democratic equality edged into an unnerving conformity. By stamping whole townships onto old farmland, Levitt brought the machine into the garden in a very literal way. Unlike the automobile or the radio, the home was an ancient possession, a thing too intimate to be mass-produced without offending notions of Yankee individuality that were already under intense pressure from modernity. And as Levittown matured, suburbia itself began to look like humanity at room temperature, a place where the true countryside was denatured, while...