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Genji was something of a one-off. Modern Japanese fiction begins more or less with Natsume Soseki, born in 1867 shortly after Japan's opening to the West. Twentieth century Japanese literature was often preoccupied - formally and thematically - with the tortured attempts to come to terms with Western influences. Western readers may sometimes feel that they are looking through a telescope - only to see a telescope turned back in their direction...
Jackie Kennedy had longtime ambitions to be a style setter. At age 20, she wrote that her goal in life was to be "a sort of Overall Art Director of the Twentieth Century." If that isn't the place she achieved, it is true all the same that no midcentury woman in the English-speaking world influenced taste the way she did in the 1960s. Audrey Hepburn was cuter, the Duchess of Windsor had more spending power; but Jackie crystallized an emerging notion of modernity for both the elites she moved among: the newly prosperous middle classes and those still...
...decade-scale bumps and troughs are averaged out, grades increased at a remarkably constant rate through most of the twentieth century. If there is evil here, then there has been evil for a long time. If ethnicity, psychology, guilt, affirmative action, the idealization of self-esteem or faculty spinelessness is supposed to explain late 20th-century increases in grades, then the same theory needs to be tested against the full, continuous course of increase in grades at Harvard...
...Phyllis Anderson Prize-winning play by Michael M. Ragozzino ’01, is rather unlikely. It turns out that there is only one mind behind all of the “great” (or even merely good) artistic works of the twentieth century. Picasso? Gershwin? Hemingway? Updike? The list goes on and on, and all of their work was actually produced by one Scott Anderson, who will die on his 183rd birthday. (The longevity is hereditary, but not in the way you think...
Having Scott Anderson as the creative genius behind the major compositions, paintings and literary works of the twentieth century provides a convenient and heavy-handed way of getting at these themes and questions, although the highly improbable scenario has a certain forced, unreal tone. Instead of making an insightful comment on how we define artistic greatness and bestow fame, it actually takes something away from the ambitious discussion of our desire for those things. The precarious arrangement behind which Scott has hidden his genius from the outside world is all about to come undone, two days before Scott?...