Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooms off the courtyard, Rembrandts, Titians, Botticellis and Raphaels covered the walls. The rooms were filled with early Italian armchairs, tapestries, Venetian glassware, early Roman statues, and hundreds of other things she had collected over the years. "It seemed as if the Venetian Renaissance had been reincarnated in twentieth-century Boston," Carter says...
...fact also remains that today's average Mississippi Negro has found the last remaining way to beat Twentieth Century Responsibility. The old Protestant Ethic has passed him by. Even considering his economic position he pays little taxes (92 percent of West Point's taxes are paid by the minority white population); he avails himself of common law marriage, thus avoiding financial and legal responsibility (80 percent of the state's Negro marriages are so contracted); and he is not expected to be a steady employee...
Negativism, explained by Hurkan as the culmination of rationalism, is taken up in Paul Tillich's article, Beyond the Dilemma of Our Period, as the major predicament of the middle of the twentieth century. It leaves the autonomous man in the age of science, without spiritual substance. Many individuals in search for a "fountain of meaning" are led toward authoritarianism. Tillich warns against taking preliminary realities as ultimates. He offers instead the Christian's attitude of waiting...
...hundred years ago the art of the harpsichord was dead, victim of the piano's lower cost and wider range of expression. The twentieth century, however, has seen the harpsichord revive to the extent of attracting compositions from such modern composers as Harvard's Walter Piston. The instrument has also found a place in popular music ("Come On 'a My House"), and it is even being taught at Yale. On Sunday afternoon a Yale professor honored Harvard with a concert that illustrated the reasons for the harpsichord's revival...
...voices of propriety spoke in such severe terms. The liberal Manchester Guardian, which speaks with equal authority, replied to the Times with an earnest question. "Is the democratic instinct of the country in this twentieth century," it asked, "really in favor of hedging royalty in with ecclesiastical proscriptions of arguable historical and theological validity? Or does it not rather prefer to give royalty the same rights and freedoms in their personal affairs as ordinary, decent citizens? If we can have a Prime Minister.*** Cabinet ministers and judges who are 'innocent parties.' we can, without feeling unduly disturbed...