Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense correctly that one of your major sources was "Partners in Production,"a report by the Labor Committee of the Twentieth Century Fund assisted by Osgood Nichols, which the Fund published...
...Twentieth Century Fund New York City
...authors: "We have almost forgotten it, in this last half of the twentieth century, but the most important question about the coed at one time was simply this: Why should women go to college at all? A great many people believed, in all sincerity, that undue mental strain would cause women to have 'brain fever.'. . . Others, unable to imagine any other role for women but that of housewife and mother, felt that higher education was a complete waste of time and effort. And a third group, doubtless composed of the real benighted conservatives of the day, felt that...
...other four: Twentieth Century, Stalag 17, The Fourposter, The Shrike...
...characters, Billy Budd, the personification of good, and Claggart, the personification of evil, are that old morality theme incarnate. And the first act suffers a bit in drawing this Maichean point too bluntly. Maybe you could get away with it in the Nineteenth century, but this is the Twentieth century, and this boy Billy Budd is just a little bit too good to be true, and Claggart--what motivates the man to behave so meanly? You find yourself wondering why he is in secure--but then you realize that Melville didn't think in those terms and playwrights Louis Coxe...