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Word: twentieths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Depth and the letdown following the Yale meet proved the ruin of the Crimson. Jed Fitzgerald, the next harrier after Benjamin, finished twentieth, and other disappointments followed. Coach Bill McCurdy noted Thursday that "if one of our top five goes, the whole meet goes." Yesterday, the whole team caved in, although their 135-138 loss to fourth-place Brown was not as bad as it could have been...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Benjamin Wins Heptagonals | 11/8/1958 | See Source »

...Walden Pond, hallowed sanctuary, symbolic tract of man's nature and of Nature's man. To the north, a new high school, clarion of the New Learning, expression of the finest in the Modern Temper. Over the entire scene hangs a dark cloud of necessity, the Antithesis of the twentieth century Synthesis, the bane of the American Spirit--Concord is without a garbage dump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quiet Desperation | 10/28/1958 | See Source »

Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for 1958, hinted last night at the direction twentieth century music is taking, and sketched the pedigree of Latin American music at "A Latin American Composer," the first of the six Norton Lectures...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: Chavez Delivers First Norton Lecture; Outlines Course of 20th Century Music | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

...twentieth century is shifting its "musical center of gravity" from "extra-musical" reactions to those "purely musical" Chavez noted. He elaborated this idea by saying that in the nineteenth century "we were too human" and now "we are human in spite of ourselves...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: Chavez Delivers First Norton Lecture; Outlines Course of 20th Century Music | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

...these two devices seems to indicate that the writer did not have the skill or the patience to develop his protagonist without artificially bisecting him into two idea-vehicles. Bogard loses depth and reality as a college student and becomes a clumsy allegorical figure in a twentieth-century morality play...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The 'Apathetic Generation' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

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