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...1920s, in response to the rising rate of Jewish matriculation (1 percent in 1881, 10 percent in 1918 and 22 percent in 1922), President A. Lawrence Lowell helped establish a new admissions system to combat the University's "Jewish problem." There were few Blacks at Harvard until the mid-20th century, only 160 before 1940. Black students were barred from the dormitories until 1923; they were segregated from whites in College residences until World War II. It seems that Harvard's much touted reputation for diversity and tolerance is a relatively recent phenomenon...
...changing demographics and lifestyles of Blacks since the mid-20th century has created a situation where the climate of intellectual debate established by Du Bois and his colleagues is no longer possible, Cruse said...
...impact. The cloth must be moved, draped just so and drawn at the proper angle to the light before the outline of the animal is even suggested. The effect is cunning, quixotic, magical, and knows no boundary in time. The cloth, in fact, dates only from the mid-20th century, but the tiger, fashioned from phantom stripes of fabric, was tie-dyed with supernal skill, millimeter by millimeter, by a craftsman whose techniques were passed down over 1,200 years. The lace of Chantilly seems, by comparison, fussy and overemphatic. That tiger prowls with the power...
Until the mid-20th century no politician faced such indecent public exposure, expected to answer tough questions instantly without squirming and with seeming candor, under the camera's up-close searching eye. The questions are often prosecutorial: if a politician tells the truth, he may get in trouble; if he tells a lie, he may get into worse trouble; if he waffles, he will be pressed further. The talent to survive is essential to the politician, but detrimental to the man. It has produced a new mutant in the modern political animal-the chummy dissembler-that many people find...
...Blue Jean, from his soon-to-be-released album Tonight, Bowie assumes two roles. Sometimes he is Lord Byron, sometimes he is a sign painter named Vic, vainly trying to convince his girlfriend that he and the randy aristocrat are buddies. Seems like old times, but the period is mid-20th century. "Blue Jean is a '50s-style short," explains Bowie. "This is where videos are going...