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...readiness to face facts -- and Gorbachev's call to fill in the "blank spots" of history. By losing control of the past, the Communist Party began to lose control of its present -- and future. "The return of history," Remnick writes, "was the start of the great reform of the twentieth century and, whether Gorbachev liked it or not, the collapse of the last empire on earth...
...last of the dinosaurs," says Eleanor Doermann Larrabee. "It was really sort of nineteenth-century there--its attitude about how one should behave in public, how one should be shepherded, and many Harvard professors didn't want to teach at Radcliffe. I wished the place would enter the twentieth century...
Throughout the book, Byatt immerses her readers in the social mores and concerns of the mid-nineteenth century, resembling her nineteenth century predecessors perhaps more than she does other twentieth-century authors. Despite the frustrations of "The Conjugial Angel," "Morpho Eugenia" makes Byatt's latest effort worth reading, and a welcome respite from the pressures of post-modernity...
Gather round, children; it's time once again to talk about that famous construct of the twentieth century, the military-industrial complex. Sadly, the complex is ruling our lives more than that of Oedipus or Electra at a time when we need it least. When the president and ex-president both proudly call our nation the only superpower, why do we need a defense-dominated economy...
...study by the Twentieth Century Fund concluded that school boards have become an obstacle to reform. The study further recommends that in large cities especially, school board members should not be elected, but appointed by the mayor or city manager. Such executives are elected by legitimate majorities after open and well-publicized campaigns; school boards they appoint are in a way more accountable than those selected in bogus elections...