Word: twentieth
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These interesting scenes from Churchill's young life all occurred in the nineteenth century, but they prepared him for what would come in the twentieth century, beginning with his first election to Parliament in 1900. Churchill's service in the Cabinet before World War I, his return to the front in 1916, and his inter-war successes and failures are well known and easily discovered. Of course, even better known is Churchill's and Britain's lonely fight against Germany for two long years in World War II. But it is especially worthwhile that the readers of a college newspaper...
...hard being but a few hours drive from the Capital of the Twentieth Century. In the art world, where New York's hegemony is especially overwhelming, the resulting insecurity leads to Boston's misguided attempts to imitate or to compare itself to New York. Such attempts inevitably fall flat. This is unfortunate, because these gestures are intended as expressions of the Boston art community's justified optimism and pride: they just come out all wrong. In the photograph A Great Day in Boston, there are 810 beaming Boston visual artists. Behind all those goofy banners on Harrison Ave., there...
...Weinberg more than makes up for these shortcomings, however, in the second play of the series, Tennessee Williams' Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. Set against the changing social and economic conditions of the Deep South in the early twentieth century, Williams' play charts the harrowing sexual exploitation of Flora, an obese, simple-minded woman abused by both her husband and a wealthy neighbor. Dorothy Brodesser's deeply moving performance as Williams heroine alone is worth the price of admission. Constantly made up in her Sunday best, she haunts the sparsely dressed stage clutching her most expensive handbag and making...
...fair, Agins doesn't suggest that mannequins and boutiques, from Rodeo Drive to Newbury Street, are going to start spontaneously combusting in celebration of the new year. Rather, Agins crafts an incredibly selective history of twentieth-century fashion, concluding that haute couture has taken 40 years to die and the final funeral peals only happen to coincide with the end of the world. Escalating operating costs, conglomeration and insidious in-fighting, when coupled with "democratic" trends in the market, sealed fashion's fate...
Janitors are now beginning contract negotiations with the University and aim to secure a living wage of at least $10 per hour. Boston University, which has an endowment less than one-twentieth the size of Harvard's, already pays its janitors over $10 per hour. The city of Cambridge passed a living wage ordinance in May, establishing $10 per hour as the minimum wage for all city workers. Harvard will fight the janitors' reasonable demand, and fight hard...