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Robertson's 1991 book, The New World Order argues that the last two centuries have witnessed an anti-Christian conspiracy involving, among others, European Jewish Bankers, Bavarian Freemasons, and Bolsheviks. The book draws heavily on explicitly anti-Semitic tracts from the early twentieth century. In what New York Times columnist Frank Rich has called a 'bait and switch,' Robertson quotes almost verbatim from these works, leaving out of his own work the glaringly obvious anti-Semitic remarks that permeate such rightly forgotten books as Nesta Webster's 1922 World Revolution: Plot Against Civilization...
Jeremy Leven's "Don Juan de Marco" is a dishearteningly monochromatic interpretation of the world's most notorious lover. Johnny Depp, with his penchant for eccentric roles, seems to be an inspired choice to play the mysterious, sensuous young man who appears in the late twentieth century to recount intimate memories of his prolific love life. But as the picture-perfect sunsets flash across the screen, the lovely ladies disrobe, the orchestra hums and the saccharine sentiments fly, it becomes apparent that his Don Juan is just another primetime soap opera rogue...
According to the Gazette, the tenured position will be filled by an expert in the history of Turkey during its transitional phase from the late Ottoman to early Republic periods--a period during the early twentieth century...
...Across the twentieth century, this observation has been made: that gifted young women often experience psychological distress at the time of adolescence," she said...
Mendelsohn's professional interest, of course, is in the history of science. His popular core courses "Darwinian Revolution" and "Science and Society in the Twentieth Century" explore the interaction of scientific ideas with social practices. Mendelsohn's own work considers the external effects of science, like war, as well as its internal structure--how scientific institutions are organized, for instance, and the "ethos of research...