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Then there was Islamic Iran, a bastion of the Middle Ages in the twentieth century. Among its more notable achievements to date has been the virtual destruction of the Bahai community, by shooting its members and destroying their temples...
...temperature measurement and president and founder of Omega Engineering in Connecticut. Also among the new members: Christie Hefner, 29, a corporate vice president and widely considered the hare apparent of Playboy Enterprises; Investment Adviser Julia Walsh of Julia M Walsh & Sons of Washington, D.C.; Sherry Lansing, president of Twentieth Century-Fox Productions; and Florence Skelly, president of pollsters Yankelovich, Skelly& White...
Students at Harvard 75 years later have a difficult time imagining the thrill their forebearers experienced when they entered the Yard during the twentieth century's first decade. After all, only the most ardent iconoclasts could pass through the Yard on a tranquil, sunlit afternoon and fail to delight in the splendor of its history. Legendary figures, we all know, have passed through, following a path that wound its way through the traditional brick buildings and on to the heights of glory. It's easy to wander through the old American architecture and conjure up impressions of the depths...
...book is divided into three sections, entitled "Belongings," "Surroundings" and "Ourselves." The individual essays are similarly titled, usually with single word labels. "Soap," "Jeans," "Advertising," "Hotels," "Fences," "D-Day," and so on Rooney role of the Average Joe, some kind of twentieth-century Every man, pointing out all the little things we never notice about ourselves. His humor relies on his audience saying "Hee, Hee, why didn't I think of that?" All too often, though, the answer to that question is "I didn't think about that because it's a pretty stupid things to think about...
...printed pieces, Thurber was a master of turning a homely personal detail--his troubles with his housekeepers, say, or the night his bed collapsed--into an affecting, hilarious story. Thurber's character Walter Mitty, reduced to a life of fantasy in an otherwise banal existence, remains the quintessential twentieth-century nebbish...