Word: twentieth
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...Twentieth Century...
...long have antiglobalists feared giant corporations? Well, Irish satirist Samuel Madden predicted that two companies would eventually control the world economy in his Memoirs of the Twentieth Century--in 1733. Now, in The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, both editors at the Economist, take a Churchillian view: corporations are the worst form of economic organization, except for all the others. The book is an entertaining romp through the highs and lows of corporations since the first compagnia appeared in 12th century Italy. An 18th century British lord complained, "Corporations have neither bodies...
...have restricted their diets to “freedom fries.” Such a distinction is, of course, quite silly and will hardly affect our international ally. Moreover, the United States certainly does not contemplate war with France—as it did with Germany early in the twentieth century, when sauerkraut briefly became “liberty cabbage.” But changing the name of America’s favorite potato junk food is hardly an effective enough finger-wagging to reprimand France...
...against the proposal with passion and with clarity—and with the voice of 6,500 undergraduates. He and his nine colleagues—including Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, who is co-authoring A World Transformed: A Global History of the Twentieth Century with Kirby—may just have turned the tide against the administration’s ill-conceived plan. And they should feel proud for having had the courage to do so. The student body is surely proud of them for standing up for their principles. And, just maybe...
Norhnberg’s said he was looking forward to teaching a class on twentieth Century poetry as well as on his specialty of British Modernism...