Word: luce
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wily manipulations and passion for experimentation, he's the jaunty face of democratic values. Thus we pick him as the foremost statesman and one of three finalists for Person of the Century. That may seem, to non-Americans, parochial. True, but this was, as our magazine's founder Henry Luce dubbed it in 1941, the American Century--politically, militarily, economically and ideologically...
...John D. Rockefeller b) Henry R. Luce c) Michael Jordan d) Oprah Winfrey...
...spoke about biography being autobiographical. There's a lot in the biography that has a lot to do with you--references to Clare Booth Luce, to Teddy Roosevelt, and the musicality of the text. How much is this also a book of you, and how much is it a book of the United States during this century...
This is why the story of China's intriguing evolution is so much more nuanced than it looks from afar and why our Newstour was so valuable. I like to think that our founder Henry Luce, who was born in China and whose open-minded curiosity eventually overcame his missionary impulses toward that country, would agree...
...Ours, like Europe's, "began" among the slaughters of the trenches, say around 1914, and "finished" with the collapse of Soviet communism, say around 1989, thus becoming the shortest ever. The phrase the American Century comes, of course, from a wartime editorial written in LIFE by its founder, Henry Luce, expressing an updated view of the 19th century belief in Manifest Destiny: that it was the fate and duty of America to "lead the world" in all things--spiritual, political, cultural and economic...