| 单词 | twentieth |
| 例句 | By the twentieth century biologists were stoutly denying its existence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was the twentieth day of the advance when she finally won free of her ankle chains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So perhaps, you say hopefully, discrimination was practically eradicated during the twentieth century, like polio. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Between the two of us, we’d amassed an impressive collection of books written by twentieth century Black female authors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z On Saturday, the twentieth of December, in the year 1606, the fleet fell from London.... Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Where were you on the night of May twentieth?” the detective goes on. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As in so many other fields, the study of attention broadened and deepened as the twentieth century sped along. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z By the turn of the twentieth century, the colonies were changing. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The grandeur of the ornate glass structure, built in the Beaux Arts style in the early twentieth century, makes one think it must have at one point been a playground for royalty. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It is hard to imagine what twentieth- century classical music would have done without ballet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z "That's fine, Esther," he observed, as I negotiated my slope for the twentieth time. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The inheritors of Mozart’s legacy in the twentieth century - classically-trained, self-styled ‘serious’ composers - struggled desperately with this challenge. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The work that eventually emerged from all this anguish, his fifth symphony, premiered in November 1937, is now recognised as one of the classical masterpieces of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This haul was in effect the start of the twentieth century’s Vivaldi revival and a great flowering of musicological interest in this hitherto all but forgotten master. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then we came out of the tunnel and onto the platform, and I understood why: we were no longer in the nineteenth century, nor even the twentieth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He reached into a bag by his feet and took out his diary, turning to the twentieth of October. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This road of endless ruts and missing stretches of pavement had been built during the first American occupation of Haiti, in the early twentieth century. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the twentieth century. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The Principles of Geology went through twelve editions in Lyell’s lifetime and contained notions that shaped geological thinking far into the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z During much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private detective agencies had filled the vacuum left by decentralized, underfunded, incompetent, and corrupt sheriff and police departments. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The distinctive Cuban dimension in Latin American music that so inspired Stevie Wonder and others had only really escaped from its island home at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The musical had, as the twentieth century matured, gratefully filled the vacuum created by opera’s self-imposed exile from accessibility, an attribute it had successfully maintained from the 1630s to Puccini’s last operas in the 1920s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Le’s see, this is the twentieth, noon the twentieth.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I left home on a Monday, the twentieth of August, 1954. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was, in effect, the starting point of the twentieth century’s preoccupation with what we now call ‘world music’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It draws its comedy from the fact that what, to Flanders and Swann’s twentieth- century Western audience, is a commonplace, is heresy to the cannibals of the song. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “I was born on January 1, 1900! I lived every day of the twentieth century!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z New York’s prison system in the early twentieth century, to his concerned eyes, was in need of complete overhaul. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So I asked Adah rather loudly, “Say, isn’t today’s date the twentieth of August?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But Metcalfe put a fine point on what had become a core attribute of media by the end of the twentieth century. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps only those who endured the twentieth century’s death camps—Hitler's, Stalin’s, or Pol Pot’s—can imagine the nightmare of slavery as it existed in the nineteenth-century South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast’s card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z From the late nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century, the garment trade was the largest and most economically vibrant industry in the city. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z My great-great-grandparents emigrated to America at the turn of the twentieth century; any relatives of mine who died in the Holocaust were cousins of ancestors I never knew. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Even though lead was widely known to be dangerous, by the early years of the twentieth century it could be found in all manner of consumer products. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The last thing we need in the twentieth century, she wrote, is another witch-hunt. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The explosion in popular songwriting in the second half of the twentieth century is a joyous thing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She contemplated a few pulpy grains of crushed root clinging to her fingertips and resisted—for the twentieth time—the temptation to see what they tasted like. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “I guess the history books has got to be rewrit; it’s took forty-three year, two month, and a day or two for the Finger of God to steal its twentieth soul.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I checked my avatar’s stats and saw that I’d been awarded several hundred thousand experience points for clearing the gate, enough to raise my avatar from tenth level up to twentieth in one shot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Each is foreshadowed by an earlier century, but dazzles into full prominence in the twentieth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In schools and universities, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the study of rhetoric pushed aside. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z My mom, frustrated, finally responded that I was born on “the twentieth of Mehr in 1359,” according to the Iranian calendar. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Escapist fun was not, by and large, a route chosen by classical composers in the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The twentieth century put enormous pressure on classical composers to carve out a new role for themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Its hard drive was filled with old books, movies, TV show episodes, song files, and nearly every videogame made in the twentieth century. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Colored was not a derogatory term—certainly not at the turn of the twentieth century. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And James Abram Garfield became the twentieth president of the United States, a sprawling country of 50 million people. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z ‘Elitist’ is an overused word, tinged with resentment, but in describing serialist self-justification of the twentieth century it is spot on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z During the next boom period in the seventies and eighties, Odessa made a telltale leap into the twentieth century. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, I believed we were going to make it to Lewiston by the next day, the twentieth of August, my mothers birthday. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z At the end of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was killing about two million people a year, more adults than any other infectious disease except for AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Say, could you let me have five until the twentieth? That’s when my alimony check comes. I usually don’t run short, but I had a problem last week.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She lived in warlike times, when the lives of young people were as short as those of airmen in the twentieth century. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re set for trial on February eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth,” he said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Public subsidy allowed formats that had become financially unviable - such as the nineteenth-century symphony orchestra - to prosper somewhat artificially in the twentieth century, justified by the preservation of heritage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Only the first part was printed in his lifetime, but by the twentieth century historians had found and published most of the rest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Burnham’s health began to decline early in the twentieth century, when he was in his fifties. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the twentieth century, Susan, we started a new cycle of wars—what shall I call them? I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Hilary Putnam, perhaps the most influential analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century, published a famous article called “The Meaning of Meaning” in a learned academic volume. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She reread it for the twentieth time handling each word in her mind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z However difficult life may have been for the early miners, by the second half of the twentieth century Centralia was a reasonably prosperous, snug, hardworking town with a population approaching 2,000. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z If the first tail occurs before the twentieth flip, you must pay $100. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Allan Pinkerton, in the nineteenth century, was known as “the eye,” Burns, in the twentieth century, had become “the ear.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “October twentieth—just two weeks! Hundreds of people will be there, and I think we all pledge allegiance to the flag together. I get to miss school and everything.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In the early twentieth century, many whites still lived in this area. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It would become perhaps the biggest underreported story of the twentieth century.... The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “No motorcars, very few telephones, not many electric lights. Even though it was the beginning of the twentieth century, you still very much felt the influence of the nineteenth century.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One positive function Schoenberg’s twelve-tone formula fulfilled, though, other than provide for interesting analysis and debate, was to give composers in the twentieth century a challenging structure with which to grapple. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z With a disproportionate number of Hampton citizens earning a living from the liquor industry in the early days of the twentieth century, the alcohol drought that was rolling across the country was potentially devastating. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The splitting-up of the world into three great superstates was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Bess and which have been covered uncomplainingly by most of the great African- American recording artists of the twentieth century, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis and Aretha Franklin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Swiftly, and more than a little unexpectedly, he became the most outstanding astronomer of the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The divorce took place in 1992, just a couple years shy of their twentieth wedding anniversary. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Kreisler was among the greatest violinists of the twentieth century. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z From twentieth, she jumped within two weeks to fifteenth, an unheard-of change in such a time. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In the early decades of the twentieth century, the streetcar traveled up and down the Black Belt throughout the day, picking up passengers along the way, setting them down again at their destinations. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the early twentieth century, husbands and doctors had the right to have their wives and patients held in psychiatric wards for indefinite periods, sometimes confined by straitjackets and leg irons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Here he was walking around in the middle of the twentieth century trying to explain what a ghost had done. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily, the Internet was finally around, so I could convert the twentieth of Mehr in 1359 to the exact date on the US calendar. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Our plot was to unfold at the banquet celebrating the twentieth year of King Hamlet’s rule. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z If this revelation is typical, the ancient Danube Valley was as violent as the twentieth century. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the resume of the man who was trying out for what might be said to be—without exaggeration — one of the most important jobs of the twentieth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The decor seemed to be frozen in the twentieth century, when the place was built. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, she wrote a long letter to Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “This is my son, Anden. Today is his twentieth birthday, so I thought I would bring him with me to this lovely celebration.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z During the first half of the twentieth century, the incidence of violent crime in the United States was, for the most part, fairly steady. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z By the end of the twentieth century many nations had collected nuclear weapons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the twentieth century progressed, developments in computing and interpersonal communications technology, which had been evolving somewhat independently, began to converge. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They were living in the late twentieth century, not the late nineteenth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z By the second half of the twentieth century this was certainly not the case for premieres of new operas or symphonies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age, nearly every black family in the American South, which meant nearly every black family in America, had a decision to make. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The airplane is probably the most exciting technological development of the early twentieth century. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z ‘I’d say he embodied the twentieth century. Some people even think he might have had’ - she looked at Mum - ‘you know. What Ted’s got.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Riot Gear. It’s retro. It’s beat up to look like one of the big twentieth- century riots. It’s been big since earlier this week.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the deadline, in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, the Black Belt community was growing. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Only in the second half of the twentieth century, with the dismantling of legal barriers to opportunity, did the lines begin to blur. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He was buried with his family in Madrid, his descendants putting down roots in Spain that persisted into the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z My father holds the door open on the twentieth floor and stands like a sentry as every Abnegation walks past him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was the twentieth century before people thought seriously about this, and there were three men who seemed to be ahead of everyone else in the world. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This wasn’t just about record-buying preferences, either: being a composer in the twentieth century meant making career- defining choices that simply were not relevant to earlier generations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Detective Douglass continues: “Did you have any contact with either Trey Filly or Bradley Mathers on the night of May twentieth?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By the early twentieth century, Bigheart and other Osage knew that they could no longer avoid what a government official called the “great storm” gathering. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z That they had virtually all come from lives of obscurity and poverty is in itself remarkable and a phenomenon rarely witnessed in Western music before the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z For most of the twentieth century, medicine had been using the same primitive diagnostic criterion of sex formulated by Klebs way back in 1876. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Poppy, remember when you told us your twentieth birthday was the most important landmark day of your life? I do not think it will be a very good day in mine.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z As the twentieth century approached, Stanton and Anthony realized that they would not live long enough to see nationwide suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Emily sighed with frustration as she came across what was probably the twentieth typo. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Emily sighed with frustration as she came across what was probably the twentieth typo. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z As Chicago moved into the twentieth century, the golden days for Joyce and the other butcher aristocrats were over. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know about that, but the other day President Clinton said the polio vaccine is one of the most important things that happened in the twentieth century, and her cells involved with that too.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then, through a series of misadventures, the family had ended up in China, finally emigrating to Canada in the twentieth century. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This interesting riddle is still quite a challenge to modern science in the twentieth century. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Early in the twentieth century, inmates who prized special bars sewn onto their uniforms for time served were humiliated when, as punishment, these symbols of accomplishment were removed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The stylistic parting of ways that started to become evident in the early twentieth century, though, was on an unprecedented scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But the principal, underlying cause was that, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, human equality had become technically possible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He had another two birthdays still to celebrate behind bars, his nineteenth and his twentieth. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I remember he asked his father, “Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But the music they had nurtured and were now able to share with the wider world was to have a profound, revolutionising impact on the twentieth century’s musical story. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In some respects we are like the physical sciences of the early twentieth century, booming along into new territory, but without an equivalent for the engineering of that time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This demonstration set the stage for the next wave of attention science, and the new discoveries as the twentieth century wore on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Wells set the action a few years in the future—in the early twentieth century. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Abortion in the twentieth century was often dangerous and usually expensive. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The present tense is moving forward, discarding concept after concept, and I am off to the side somewhere, fiddling with egg tempera and flat surfaces, as if the twentieth century has never happened. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "Astronomers in the twentieth century essentially abandoned the solar system," he added. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z All this is of some significance to me partly because I live in Hanover but mostly, I believe, because I live in the late twentieth century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was the twentieth year after the Great War. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The likes of Eleanor Roosevelt declared we ought to come forth with aid and bring those poor children into the twentieth century. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The upshot is that by the turn of the twentieth century, paleontologists had literally tons of old bones to pick over. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By all accounts those storytellers, born Black and male before the turn of the twentieth century, should have been ground into useless dust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One of Dr. Finch’s concessions to the twentieth century was a telephone. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z To return to the agricultural past, as some thinkers about the beginning of the twentieth century dreamed of doing, was not a practical solution. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Instead, a new force had emerged, and was by the early twentieth century the most exhilarating sound in Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If the passage was from the twentieth poem in the book, the meeting would be on the twentieth day of the month. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stevie Wonder, surely one of the greatest of all twentieth- century musicians in any field, was one such gatherer of styles. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z On the twentieth morning without any word from her father, Marie-Laure does not get out of bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human deaths resulted from human violence—and this in a century that saw the bloodiest wars and most massive genocides in history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He wet on the garbage can for the twentieth time and called it a day. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We hear the heavy bass from Dray’s car outside, and Donna changes her outfit for the twentieth time. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “You’re getting confused, Ma. I wasn’t with you. We went to visit Daddy’s grave on the twenty-first, not the twentieth.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In the late twentieth century humans did not much die of plague—not because it was absent, but because resistance was high. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I have been reckoning,’ he said, ‘and I can’t bring the total up to October the twenty-fourth. It ought to be the twenty-first. We must have reached the Ford by the twentieth.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They even suggested, at the end of the twentieth century, that the Universe itself may not be unique. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But there were less than five billion people on the planet in the late twentieth century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite recent efforts to locate the title in the twentieth century, they comprised, by any informed and fair-minded standard, the greatest generation of political talent in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Picture it. Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew she was hoping that there’d be a telegram, telling us that all was well and he’d see us for sure on the twentieth. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mummies were first discovered in the Atacama at the beginning of the twentieth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Actually, we should have gone to the movies the next day, the twentieth, and taken my mother to distract her. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All of us enjoyed hearing about these little forays of his into the twentieth century, so Francis and I pressed him to tell us what now had happened. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Germany had dominated science in the early twentieth century: it had been the crucible of atomic physics, quantum mechanics, nuclear chemistry, physiology, and biochemistry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They based this speculation on the hard lessons learned during the twentieth century about the behavior of children of similar character. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These tensions and animosities would brew and simmer for many decades, and eventually they would result in urban unrest on a grand scale in the twentieth century. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z West Baltimore was one of the intellectual capitals of the East Coast in the early twentieth century. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The six and twentieth day of April, about four o’clock in the morning, we descried the land of Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The picture and the article that Richard showed me were from that book that covers the whole twentieth century. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Absolutely not. Haven’t seen or spoken to either of those guys since April twentieth.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then, after my fifteenth or twentieth missed day of school, I sat in my social studies classroom with Mrs. Jeremy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Until well into the twentieth century, getting to the nearest train station was a two-day wagon trip. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z After you've witnessed your twentieth, hundredth, thousandth person perish, words are meaningless. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On Monday, the twentieth of April, under the tightest of security, we were taken to the Palace of Justice, this time to begin our defense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States Army had ventured here before, in the early twentieth century, to restore order during another period of turmoil, only to leave and watch from a distance as the new government eventually collapsed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z European surrealists came across this colorful new art in the first years of the twentieth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the end of the twentieth century, Halliday was widely recognized as the greatest videogame designer of his generation—and, some would argue, of all time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Our kind survived the twentieth century by hiding, not fighting—so perhaps all we need is a better way to hide.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Early in the twentieth century the fair became a source of heated debate among architects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Early Sunday afternoon, Welles showed up at Studio One, on the twentieth floor of CBS’s Madison Avenue building. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z While modern classical music had its challenges, older music was encountering its own difficulties in the twentieth century, despite - or indeed because of - an explosion in recordings in the 1960s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They sailed in November 1676, with Halley, now just past his twentieth birthday, abandoning his degree studies. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Until Elgar, Vaughan Williams and perhaps Parry in the twentieth century, no composer commanded as much respect, pride or admiration among Britons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And the dramatic advances in technology in the twentieth century affected popular and classical music in very different ways. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A good case could be made that he was the most influential geologist of the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Aids is arguably the worst environmental disaster of the twentieth century. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Never, never!” she cried with a most open eagerness—“Never, for the twentieth part of a moment, did such an idea occur to me. And how could it possibly come into your head?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z By the late twentieth century, two megatons was the energy released in the explosion of a single more or less humdrum thermonuclear bomb: one bomb with the destructive force of the Second World War. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His response to the world he confronted in the middle of the twentieth century was profound and deeply felt, but he didn’t speak to my experience as well as Colin Powell did. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It was a neighborhood that had degenerated from Victorian to nothing in particular, a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice broke, and he gave Stella what had to be his twentieth bear hug. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His face was noble; a face sculpted from an aggrieved aristocracy that was bleeding out through weak tributaries in the long delta of the twentieth century. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there is the example of the religious group known as the Hutterites, who for hundreds of years have lived in self-sufficient agricultural colonies in Europe and, since the early twentieth century, in North America. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bring me your best and brightest bookworms, research hounds, and gamers. Our first Library Olympiad shall commence on March twentieth. The ancient Greeks had their summer games, so we’ll take the first day of spring.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He had reported almost every war of the twentieth century, like the Spanish Civil War, and the genocide in East Timor, and bad stuff that happened in Africa. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Mahler’s symphonies were a new start all right: he is music’s gateway to the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So from the point of view of asteroid research the twentieth century was essentially just a long exercise in bookkeeping. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And the twentieth came; a lump of fear began to form in Jody’s stomach. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus in this respect the Scientific Revolution is not like the American or French revolutions, which were called revolutions as they happened; it is a construction of intellectuals looking back from the twentieth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And so, as the hot chocolates grew cold, Dr. Morales told the story of the deadliest volcanic eruption in the twentieth century. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z On the twentieth of May, Yutar handed out a dozen blue leather- bound volumes of his final speech to the press and one to the defense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The problem of the twentieth century,” wrote W. E. B. Du Bois around sixty years ago, “is the problem of the color line.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z By the middle of the twentieth century, abuses within mental institutions generated a lot of attention, and involuntary confinement of people became a significant problem. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z For Schubert, the birds, the bees, the woods and the trees came into their own above all in song- writing, at which he was simply unmatched before the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In short, chlorofluorocarbons may ultimately prove to be just about the worst invention of the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As he traced the prison’s history, he saw progress, the “puritanical” practice of the nineteenth century evolving into the “more enlightened social thought” of the twentieth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the ninth decade of the twentieth century the strategic missile and bomber forces of the Soviet Union and the United States were aiming warheads at over 15,000 designated targets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Up to this point in musical history - the first few years of the twentieth century - ethnic folk elements had been co-opted into classical music as subsidiary exotic flavouring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and has been replaced by something quite different. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He was trying for the twentieth time to reach his shoe, which contained a few useful tools for emergencies hidden in its heel, when the door behind him opened. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The Rite of Spring was the zenith of musical modernism in the early twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The Southern struggle had grown from a modest group of black students demonstrating peacefully at one lunch counter to the largest mass movement for racial reform and civil rights in the twentieth century. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Though the Semitic biblical cosmos toppled the Aristotelian one, the idea of an eternal, unchanging universe was not expunged completely, enduring even to the twentieth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z By the second decade of the twentieth century, black America had come to a fork in the road and had to choose: accommodation to white supremacy or unyielding opposition to it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The paving of the Kinshasa Highway affected every person on earth, and turned out to be one of the most important events of the twentieth century. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He nevertheless stands at the head of the coloristic tradition that descends through Rubens and Van Gogh to the Abstract Expressionists of the twentieth century. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Saidy answered the phone for what seemed to be the twentieth time that day, thinking it was yet another request for Bobby to make a statement or grant an interview. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Euwe, in grandmasterly fashion, thoroughly outplayed Bobby until they reached the twentieth move, at which point Bobby, realizing that his position was hopeless, toppled his king in resignation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Your parents celebrate their twentieth anniversary at the Dallas Cup. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In the twentieth century, what Madison aimed to achieve would have required a decision by the Supreme Court. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the twentieth century, because of football, the real smart people use these blacks just like they would on the farm. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z By the beginning of the twentieth century, rowing clubs flourished in the enclaves of the well-heeled. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It is an interesting reflection on the general climate of thought before the twentieth century that no one had suggested that the universe was expanding or contracting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I missed something important, and I’ll never get that opportunity again. I want to do that day over. March twentieth. A year and a half ago.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z In the twentieth century, genetics brought the Ancient Greek notion of fate into our very cells. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Call it sentimental, but the twentieth- century Broadway musical was created by Jewish men and women whose families had - almost universally - been offered a lifeline of opportunity via immigration from Europe to the United States. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The twentieth century’s musical adventure was just getting into its stride. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But at least Kevin and I had a chance to grow back into the twentieth century. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Until early in the twentieth century, Princeton crews had rowed in the Delaware and Raritan Canal, which ran directly along the south side of the campus. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The most devastating events of the twentieth century hit you at exactly the wrong time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z By that time, the average person in England ate ninety pounds of sugar a year—and in the early twentieth century, that number kept rising. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Motives which were already present to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth century have now become dominant and are consciously recognized and acted upon. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The time has changed from Wells’s early twentieth century to 1939—one year in the future. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z On the line was our state senator in Austin calling to congratulate our town as we hurtled toward the twentieth century. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Léon Bassan, who lived through the momentous events of the early twentieth century, and who raised four daughters and then lived above four granddaughters, had a particularly strong sense of Egyptian time. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Originally from Japan, Manila clams were introduced into Pacific Northwest waterways early in the twentieth century. Chef Tom Douglas digs up delicious tips on serving Manila clams 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z We believe the Burrell Collection represents a unique contribution to twentieth century architecture in Scotland and to museum design internationally. Museum becomes listed building 2013-02-01T11:24:48Z “This could only be an eruption of an initial, senseless rage, one told oneself. That sort of thing could not last in the twentieth century.” When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Constructed in 1937, it is considered an exemplary lido, an open-air swimming venue of the sort developed all over Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. I’m Not Going To Dismaland 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z At the same time, it resolved the old symbolic dissonance between vertical hierarchy and social hierarchy that survived into the first years of the twentieth century. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z As Ribowsky notes, The song went on to be the “sixth most played song of the twentieth century.” ‘Dreams to Remember’ review: An homage to Otis Redding 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Hiram’s most famous son is James A. Garfield, the twentieth President of the United States. Grammar and Punctuation in Hiram, Ohio 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “In the nineteenth century, it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the twentieth century.” The Best New Yorker Videos of 2016 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z In the twentieth century, when money men wore suits all the time, styling matters were much more straightforward. Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z But he was also a singer shaped from birth by the twentieth century’s major shifts: the advent of psychology and the raising of the ghetto. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z A twentieth anniversary of feminist pop-culture critique, and the continued existence of attitudes sexist enough to inspire it, is inevitably bittersweet. Bitch Magazine Turns Twenty 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “It’s looking more and more like Warhol has overtaken Picasso as the most important and influential artist of the twentieth century.” Review | ‘Warhol’ paints the Pop Art icon as the most influential artist of the 20th century 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z In the first half of the twentieth century, these sequences were as perfunctory as the opening pages of a book. Why Netflix's 'skip intro' feature is bad news for classic films 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z In the early twentieth century, the members of the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world, after oil was discovered under their reservation, in Oklahoma. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Yes – in fact, he's likely seen them before in images appropriated by surrealists who ransacked Oceanic art in the early twentieth century. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z Through one man’s long journey through politics, we see America’s changing attitudes toward power and duty in the twentieth century. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In the early part of the twentieth century, nationalists used verse to rouse those who struggled for independence from Great Britain. The Bizarre Trial of a Poet in Myanmar 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Once among the top ten local firms, Dr. Reddy's was now close to twentieth in the pecking order. Dr. Reddy's Rejuvenation 2011-02-03T23:00:00Z Especially in the twentieth century, narratives began to “remain insistently fragmentary, open-ended, contradictory, or defiantly ‘plotless.’ The Narrative Experiment That Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Yet this is the stretch in the Steamroller odyssey where it is tempting to think, This Chip Davis fellow—was he in fact a great visionary of the twentieth century? Embrace the Christmas Miracle That Is Mannheim Steamroller 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Francine Prose accurately identifies Joni Mitchell’s three best albums, a trilogy unsurpassed in popular music of the post war twentieth century. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z As preposterous as the idea of homosexual panic may sound today, for much of the twentieth century it was treated as something like common sense. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Though “Tradition” was initially seen only by a coterie audience, it is Eliot’s most important essay—and arguably, the most influential English-language literary essay of the twentieth century. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z By Friday the twentieth, café terraces were full again, not so much in the spirit of joyful defiance of fear as in resignation to the reality of living with it. Paris, One Year Later 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z We are honored to be the publisher of what we believe will be the foundational book on one of the most beloved and most puzzling figures of the twentieth century. ArtsBeat: Biography of J. D. Salinger Coming in September 2013-01-29T14:04:44Z What mattered was that she was a placeholder for all the possibilities and the dangers awaiting young black women at the turn of the twentieth century. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z This fall, Contrasto released “Writers: Literary Lives in Focus,” a collection of two hundred and fifty portraits of literary greats by some of the most heralded photographers of the twentieth century. Slide Show: Capturing Literary Lives 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Could Eliot really have hung a picture of Groucho on a wall next to the two greatest poets of the twentieth century? The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z And by the twentieth century, Americans began brunching on both Saturdays and Sundays. A brief history of brunch, America’s most indulgent yet over-praised weekend meal 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Like many of the pioneering American photographers of the middle twentieth century, Friedlander’s life in pictures meant pounding the pavement, and piling Kerouacian miles on his odometer in between. Lee Friedlander’s Intimate Portraits of His Wife, Through Forty Years of Marriage 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Separating fact from fiction turned out to be a tremendous task—it soon became apparent that Holmes’s real story was very different from the story that had been told throughout the twentieth century. The making of the White City Devil: How H.H. Holmes became a serial killer legend 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z “A woman should have the right to determine whether or not she wishes to be a mother,” he told the committee, a notion that dated to the voluntary motherhood movement of the early twentieth century. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z "Craigie Aitchison was a highly distinctive artist whose singular vision was rooted in an acute sensitivity to colour and subtle implications of meaning," said Paul Moorhouse, curator of twentieth century portraits. National buys defaced painting 2012-12-17T16:19:34Z The advent of behaviorism, in the twentieth century, with its Pavlovian emphasis on conditioning through reward and punishment, shifted public views of animal intelligence. Inky the Octopus and the Upsides of Anthropomorphism 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z At the turn of the twentieth century when these gadgets first hit the market for personal use, they weren’t advertised as having any sexual benefits. Slideshow: Vibrators, a history 2013-02-24T01:00:00Z Unfortunately, Roosevelt’s fears became realities all too often as the twentieth century unfolded. Birds are going extinct: Entire species are hanging on by their wingtips 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The twentieth century was ending on a high note. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Yes, capitalism turns activism inevitably turns activism into a product...a tale as old as time...or at least as old as the twentieth century. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z But lacking adequate financial support, especially as medicine became more technologically sophisticated, many of these schools closed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Such is the case in the United States, where decades of white retrenchment and free-market policies have helped to sustain many of the archsegregationist patterns set in place in the early twentieth century. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z “Islandia” is one of those novels of the early twentieth century that seem designed to process and subdue the sudden expansion of the world; it’s simultaneously a fantasy of otherness and of America’s pre-industrial simplicity. The Forgotten Novel That Inspired Homesickness for an Imaginary Land 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z In the mid and late twentieth century, Mann was widely read in America; “Death in Venice” was a fixture of the syllabus. At Thomas Mann’s House, the German President Defends Democracy 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z History will probably decide that Igor Stravinsky was the most influential composer and also the greatest of the twentieth century thus far. From the archive, 7 April 1971: Stravinksy, the towering genius 2011-04-07T15:15:35Z “The Cathedral of Time” attempts to give life to the thousands of men who moved through Dannemora’s walls, on both sides of the bars, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An Overlooked Novelist’s Unfinished Epic About the Lives of Forgotten Men 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The pattern became less common in the Romantic period, but it returned to fashion in pop music of the twentieth century, and particularly in songwriting of the nineteen-sixties and seventies. The Unoriginal Originality of Led Zeppelin 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Later in the twentieth century, there was nothing surprising about the political engagement of Bob Geldof or Bono or the social and political dimensions of gangsta rap. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Streep broke her own record with her twentieth Oscar nomination—but her Golden Globes speech was the more memorable performance. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Medicine also grew more bureaucratic, structured, and regulated throughout the twentieth century. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Buoyed by the return of medical licensure, the American Medical Association took a far more active political role in the early twentieth century. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z “Sam and Robert were one of the great unions of the twentieth century,” he said. Warhol, Mapplethorpe, Lou Reed, Patti Smith and the greatest New York story ever 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z The twentieth century began with Wells and ended with the demise of the humanities as a positive force in the education of citizens in a free society. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z In the twentieth century, Americans with different degrees of African ancestry who in earlier generations would have been described as negroes, quadroons and octoroons were all lumped together in a single category as blacks. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z But something happened this time with Cosby, somewhere around when the tenth or twentieth woman with the same story turned up. Bill Cosby can’t win back his legacy now: It’s too late to intimidate his accusers into silence 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The book, a breathtaking synthesis of all of Europe—art and war, people and ideas, East and West—in the second half of the twentieth century, is nine hundred and sixty pages long. Reading Tony Judt in Wartime Ukraine 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Until well into the twentieth century, “women’s work” was highly exploitative. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The number of homeopaths, phrenologists, mesmerists, and botanic healers sharply declined in the early twentieth century, but osteopaths, chiropractors, and many other kinds of healers made up for the retreat of older systems. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z The twentieth century saw the rise of an organized posture movement in the United States, led by the American Posture League and taken up by both medical and educational professionals throughout the country. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z During the same period, the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the development of ice manufacturing and refrigeration led to what is now called the “cold chain.” Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z For the better part of the twentieth century, the caricaturist Al Hirschfeld captured show business in all its swooping, zany glory. Cultural Clicks: Frida Kahlo’s Lovers and Parenting Advice from Metallica’s James Hetfield 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In the course of the twentieth century, hotel guests “buried on high” slowly but surely disappeared. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z It was in this context that some of the twentieth century’s most compelling art was created. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z They compared casual Americans to a Japanese look called bankara, from the early twentieth century, when élite Japanese university students intentionally wore dishevelled uniforms with capes, hats, and wooden sandals. Stalking the Wild Madras Wearers of the Ivy League 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z For the first half of the twentieth century, surfers in Southern California were few and far between. Surfing in the Age of the Omnipresent Camera 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The imperative that men pay for women goes back to the start of the twentieth century, when dating was a new method of courtship practiced by members of the urban working class. The Venmo Request: A New Wrinkle in Modern Dating 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The twentieth century’s most lucrative act has never really ebbed — which is saying something, given that two of the bandmates are deceased. "Let It Be" shows the dark side of the Beatles. It doesn't need an upbeat revision 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It is a rather cruel irony that the emblematic architect and the emblematic capital of the twentieth century never crossed paths. Collected Poems 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z In the dime-store Who’s Who books that were popular at the turn of the twentieth century, his name, in one form or another, appeared regularly. A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s one of the most compelling pieces of literature of the entire second half of the twentieth century. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The novel opens at the graveside of a Jewish girl, born at the turn of the twentieth century, at the far reaches of the Habsburg Empire. The Books I Loved in 2015 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Until the early twentieth century, for a woman to leave home unstrapped was perceived in many quarters as indecent. Our Underwear, Ourselves 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The skills and values Painter cultivated over the course of her career — rational discourse, analytic rigor and historical meaning — are regarded with suspicion, and she finds herself pigeonholed as too “academic” and “twentieth century.” Review | An aspiring artist finds out it’s never too late to start over 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The rise in going down among straight couples, the authors wrote, was the biggest sexual change of the twentieth century. It’s a “blow job” because it’s work: How guys push women to make oral sex as common as shaking hands 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z The idea of coverture was already coming under criticism by the turn of the twentieth century, at least when money and property were involved. “The rape-your-wife privilege”: The horrifying modern legal history of marital rape 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z By coincidence, the twentieth anniversary of New Labour’s landslide victory in 1997 also fell last week, causing its own ripple of reflections about how the U.K. has changed and what might have been. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z In the early decades of the twentieth century, two developments radically altered the questions. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z His achievements touch nearly every important domain of the twentieth century, including aviation and cinema. Inside the Houdini-Industrial Complex: The surprising, secret influence of the great escape artist 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z In this sense he was the writer in English of the second half of the twentieth century—the chronicler of upheaval and dispossession and migration. Reading Naipaul in Africa 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Two of the greatest dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century were born in Sweden a century ago, within a few weeks of each other. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z In the twentieth century, orders of Catholic nuns in Ireland effectively incarcerated women and forced them to perform unpaid labor, in the Magdalene Laundries. How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Works outings—subsidized, organized group trips to the seaside for factory workers—that sustained destinations like Blackpool, in Lancashire, from the mid-nineteenth century well into the twentieth, ended as Britain’s manufacturing economy declined. I’m Not Going To Dismaland 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z As much as Hobsbawm hoped to launch the politicized worker to the top of the economic mountain, the mountain proved to be an unconquerable summit, as the events of the late twentieth century would demonstrate. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z At the turn of the twentieth century, Coney Island—then a genuine island and a popular Gilded Age resort—saw the rise of three rival amusement parks. Coney Island, Then and Now—the Cyclone, Nathan’s Famous, and the Wonder Wheel 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z A tracker of dangerous themes through the forest of iconoclasm that was the early twentieth century. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z It’s hardly a secret that Japanese photography of the nineteen-sixties and seventies formed one of the high points of innovative camera work in the twentieth century. A Revolutionary Decade in Japanese Photography 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Malnutrition was endemic well into the twentieth century, especially in the parts of rural America we like to imagine as pastoral paradises. Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig? 2013-04-28T01:00:00Z She takes its failure—as well as its place at the end of her own cinematic twentieth century—as the hinge of the narrative self-portrait in “Varda by Agnès.” Agnès Varda’s Extraordinary Cinematic Accomplishment 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z While it was mostly true that regular medicine had seized political and institutional authority in the twentieth century, at the level of daily practice and individual therapeutic choice, the ground remained highly contested. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Robert Stocklas on his twentieth birthday, after a fight with his baby’s mother. A Portrait of Love and Struggle in Post-Industrial, Small-City America 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z It arose and took its famous twelve steps directly from the Oxford Group, a fundamentalist religious organization founded in the early twentieth century. The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction 2014-03-23T18:30:00Z That may not seem controversial now, but it was through much of the twentieth century. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z André Malraux bought the object at a Paris flea market and gave it to a friend for his twentieth birthday. ArtsBeat: In Paris, an Exhibition Dedicated to Hair 2012-09-25T19:04:21Z The pivotal chapter in “Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions” is entitled “Chernomor to Kashchey: Harmonic Sorcery”; it drastically revises the standard narrative of harmonic developments in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z That most of the U.N.’s members have bought into this notion is why, in the late twentieth century, many of the world’s borders came to resemble the United States and Canada’s. What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z It is also on the Modern Library’s list of the best one hundred novels of the twentieth century, in ninety-ninth place, between James Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons.” A Visit to Donleavyland, Sixty Years After “The Ginger Man” 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z During the concluding decade of the twentieth century and the first decade-and-a-half of the twenty-first, Americans endured a seemingly endless series of crises. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z “And then Irish nationalists resurrected them in the early twentieth century. They were fierce guardians of the Glen’s antique features.” A Heavenly Respite at the Westminster Dog Show 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Once inside the building, I took the elevator to the twentieth floor and handed my manila envelope to a receptionist, through a slot in a window. How I Became a New Yorker Cartoonist 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “I did not like twentieth-century books,” she explains, “because I did not like the twentieth century.” Review | ‘Milkman’ — one of the most challenging books of the year — is also one of the most rewarding 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The explosion of 24/7 news and entertainment media in the late twentieth century opened opportunities for yet another form of political engagement. Hollywood, right-wing powerhouse 2011-08-31T19:30:00Z This first defeat would preface one of the oddest and most influential literary paths of the twentieth century—a kind of greatness, if one as strange as it was great. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z For his contribution to the gala, Vereen staged an homage to the legendary black vaudevillian Bert Williams, one of the most popular entertainers of the early twentieth century. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z In sum, the evidence on work, births, and opinions together suggests at least a leveling off, perhaps even a decline, in YCGW’s commitment to work since the heyday of the late twentieth century. Is the gender revolution over? 2013-04-02T18:07:00Z The arrival of the subways in the early decades of the twentieth century set off a building boom that transformed northern Manhattan from rural to urban. Walking the Heights 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The bomb looms large for these children of the atomic age: one brags about his nuclear button, the other consecrates the Trinity test as the original sin of the twentieth century. Donald Trump’s America and the Visions of David Lynch 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Tarzan was clean-shaven, he implies, because Edgar Rice Burroughs understood that “men of the twentieth century were afraid of the ape within and worried about maintaining self-discipline.” ‘Of Beards and Men’ review: The hairy truth about shaving through the ages 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Behaviorism and consumerism, two ideologies which achieved tremendous power in the twentieth century, are cut from the same cloth. Why are Americans so easy to manipulate? 2012-10-13T14:00:00Z Korea’s Japanese occupiers, who placed a high premium on hygiene, took the concept home with them and popularized the jjimjilbang there in the early twentieth century, when most homes lacked private bathrooms. A New Castle on Fifty-Seventh Street 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z The AMA’s gains and control of public health along with the quickening pace of medical advances in the first decades of the twentieth century significantly challenged the strength of irregular medicine. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z He seemed completely in command of his milieu, middle- and upper-middle-class England at the beginning of the twentieth century, and he gently picked apart its sympathies with wit and penetrating insight. Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z A dust-jacket blurb from Colm Tóibín declares it “the greatest novel to be written in the Irish language, and among the best books to come out of Ireland in the twentieth century.” The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It all amounted to impressive testimony to the ongoing effectiveness of advertising campaigns such as those mounted by Kellogg’s and Nabisco in the early twentieth century. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z In the twentieth century there was a strong anti-narrative trend in some quarters of the ballet world: storytelling was seen as corny. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Fizzy was one of the few women participating in the Alaskan Gold Rush of the early twentieth century. The ancient art of burying your dog 2014-04-06T14:00:00Z These toys represent ideals of gender and of lifestyle: extremes of femininity and masculinity as defined by Western, twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural norms, expressing middle-class Caucasian American fantasies of what women and men should be. Transgender people don’t all want to look like Barbie or Ken 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z It is a modestly shattering discovery, one that alters our view of the twentieth century’s musical colossus. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In the middle decades of the twentieth century, the street’s internal boundaries shifted again and, as more Jewish families made it out the suburbs, Forsyth Street was annexed by Chinatown. An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z My father and mother were celebrating their twentieth anniversary that August, so they went one evening to dine by candlelight at a restaurant downtown, leaving me and my sister at our grandparents’ house. Mourning Through Horror Movies 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z “From Hell” has Gull experiencing a vision of the late twentieth century at the climax of his murderous spree. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Summoned into the American lexicon in the early twentieth century by the Girl Scouts, s'mores — sandwiches of roasted marshmallows, chocolate bars, and graham crackers — have since become a staple of summer. The absolute best way to make s'mores 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z She was finally, and within her lifetime, recognized for what she had intuitively known from childhood: that she was the foremost diarist of the twentieth century. My mentor, Anaïs Nin 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The generation who fought the Civil War was slowly drifting out of public life; Holmes was of the generation right after, the Theodore Roosevelt generation that would lead America into the twentieth century. The making of the White City Devil: How H.H. Holmes became a serial killer legend 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z There are a lot of references to the orchestral writing of the beginning of the twentieth century, but the way it's handled is more contemporary. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z “The familiar panoramic view from our apartment on the twentieth floor overlooking the Dnipro River was now dotted with huge columns of black smoke,” he wrote. Ukrainians Turn to Diaries for Solace, and to Share Life in Wartime 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Around the turn of the twentieth century, it was home to the Cornish Art Colony, started by the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, known for his bronze sculpture of Diana, once atop the old Madison Square Garden. Salinger’s House, Artist’s Retreat 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “Ulysses” is the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the twentieth century. Review: ‘Ulysses,’ by James Joyce 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Lakshmi announced her departure just prior to the conclusion of the show's twentieth season back in June. Padma Lakshmi reveals the one thing that she doesn't miss about "Top Chef" 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps Clarke thinks that all twentieth century Greek people were raised in symposia by Socrates. TV review: Whitlam: The Power and the Passion 2013-05-27T00:10:21Z For a man of such stature, sitting down with one of the most significant public figures of the twentieth century was no biggie. Werner Herzog: 'I'm not a pundit. Don't push me into that corner' 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The original version of the movie is set early in the twentieth century. A Wondrous Remake of “Pete’s Dragon” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Regardless, they are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their smash hit, Last Splash. The weirdest album to ever go platinum 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z Saariaho, though, is directly descended from the grand avant-garde tradition that began with Boulez and Stockhausen and branched out in the final decades of the twentieth century, notably with French spectralism. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z In the early twentieth century, some twelve million immigrants were inspected and given landing cards there, before the quota laws of the nineteen-twenties kicked in. Dustin Lance Black, the Screenwriter Behind “Milk” and “When We Rise,” on Coming Out As a Gay Activist 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Between the First and Second World Wars, Schiaparelli revolutionized the way women dress, but today, Secrest writes, “the most extraordinary fashion designer of the twentieth century is … just a name on a perfume bottle.” Books to Watch Out For: October 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and the most likable,” he wrote in a 2009 biography. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z “Desacralization” was the slogan of the twentieth century; it’s the slogan of ignoramuses, of mediocrity and incompetence. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z “I wanted to celebrate my twentieth anniversary given it’s a relevant moment for any designer,” Missoni told reporters at the end of the show. Missoni's party collection celebrates designer's 20th anniversary 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z He was unequivocal when he got to his opinion of the work: “‘Ulysses’ is the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the twentieth century,” he declared. The Rough Read That Was ‘Ulysses’ 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z And so it goes with the victories of the second half of the twentieth century. The best “defence”: On fighting for the good life in Trumplandia 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z But this year also marks a special occasion: it’s the twentieth annual New Yorker Festival. Highlights from Twenty Years of The New Yorker Festival 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z But as Americans began to suffer from more chronic health problems, especially in the second half of the twentieth century, worries surfaced that they had taken the widely embraced license to snack too far. TV makes us fat! 2013-09-07T22:00:00Z On the nineteenth and twentieth floors was located one of the most unusual duplex apartments in the city. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z Broad sexual attitudes in the early twentieth century differed little from those of the previous two thousand years. “The rape-your-wife privilege”: The horrifying modern legal history of marital rape 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z At the dawn of the twentieth century, white Protestant Americans feared being overrun by immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, people who traditionally had large families. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z I started asking my grandparents questions about our history, the stories of how their families emigrated from Russia at the turn of the twentieth century. Trump-era anti-Semitism changed my family — we started going to synagogue 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Douches were common, and the “womb veil,” a rubber shield, was the forerunner to the diaphragm of the twentieth century. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z Years after the hunger she became one of the twentieth century's best known actresses and at the end of April 1990 she was declared a star of the botanical world in the Netherlands. Tulips for breakfast: the flower as food from the war to contemporary gastronomy 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The result, Kirchheimer says, is that New York, with its rapid rush toward the clouds early in the twentieth century, is only slightly adorned with Sullivan’s work, ideas, and style. A Jewish-Refugee Filmmaker’s Urban American Vision 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z We understand the tribulations of the great British country houses as the country creaked into the twentieth century: thieving footmen, deranged ladies’-maids, and troublesome romances between under-butlers. The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z All of these were simply the multiple facets of one person: Jorge Semprún, an individual whose life spanned the twentieth century. Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z This weekend marks the twentieth anniversary of the tragic mass shooting at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado. Weekend Reading: The Twentieth Anniversary of Columbine 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z In 1903, addressing Jim Crow and segregation, W. E. B. Du Bois famously declared that the problem of the twentieth century would be the problem of the color line. The Democratic Vision of a Lost and Found Early-Twentieth-Century Portrait Photographer 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It was the twentieth of April and not quite warm when she gave up. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z She saw an old French postcard with text about how, around the turn of the twentieth century, women were shaved in order to make their body hair less inappropriate. Does waxing make me a bad feminist? 2014-02-17T22:00:00Z The British art historian Kenneth Clark lived through much of the tumult that the twentieth century had to offer. The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The rise of the gangs is linked to the rapid increase in prison populations in the second half of the twentieth century. Weekend Reading: Three Prison Stories 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z By the early twentieth century, they had become the dominant force in American culture. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Their story begins in the early twentieth century, when “Denmark was giving up on the West Indes and America was buying in.” Books to Watch Out For: July 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z For much of the twentieth century, Seventy-first was a busy old-fashioned main street. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z In honor of the twentieth anniversary, a new reissue is out, and Nas has been making the rounds performing “Illmatic” in concert, including two shows at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra. The Eternal Greatness of Nas's 'Illmatic' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Over the course of the twentieth century, several important fisheries collapsed, leading to the United States developing policies to regulate it. Untangling catch shares with Lee van der Voo 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z And the authors in “A History of Virility” are not shy, either, about blaming the cult of virility for the disastrous conflicts of the twentieth century. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z William R. Acquavella, his dealer, said in a statement that he would mourn Freud "as one of the great painters of the twentieth century." Realist painter Lucian Freud has died aged 88 2011-07-21T20:28:08Z How we help people in the United States today is in large part due to Addams’s efforts and thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The American’s dilemma: Jane Addams, Barack Obama & the urge to help others 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z European teachers flocked there in the early twentieth century, fleeing revolutions and war. Why Are There So Many Great Argentine Dancers? 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Marriage, recognized by the State, was one of the more sought after of newfound rights that came with freedom, and by the early twentieth century most African-Americans were legally married. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z In the early twentieth century, each person on the tribal roll began receiving a quarterly check. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It conjures thoughts of the Second World War, the twentieth century, the grand way of doing things in the past, the movies. The Funny, Empathetic Genius of Annie Baker 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The “Year Book” is odd, but it’s not unique: a number of authors received similar treatment in the later decades of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z In the twentieth century, New Critics enshrined Shakespeare’s plays as complex poetic art, unified through patterns of metaphor, irony, and paradox, and generations of students were compelled to write exegeses of his linguistic richness. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In several places throughout the book, I remind readers that nothing like modern postural yoga existed prior to the twentieth century. What most Americans don’t know about yoga 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Those condemning the practice point to its intensely racist history: its genesis in the 1800s as pressures toward emancipation built, followed by its global popularity on stage and screen throughout the twentieth century. White people have a blackface problem 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In the literature and literary criticism of the twentieth century, it’s simply unavoidable. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were, in addition to being leading literary figures and poets during the twentieth century, boorish anti-Semites. This is your brain on murder: What the mind of a psychopath looks like 2014-03-09T18:30:00Z One of the longest-standing family feuds in the New York literary world played out near the end of the twentieth century. A literary feud for the ages: What fueled the bad blood between Dominick Dunne and “the Didions” 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z The song was written sometime around the turn of the twentieth century, though to suggest that “Day-O” was formally composed in any sort of premeditated way might be overstating things. Harry Belafonte and the Social Power of Song 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Squash was first cultivated more than 8,000 years ago in Mexico and Peru, but the butternut variety was bred by a man in Massachusetts in the middle of the twentieth century. The absolute best way to cook butternut squash 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z “They’re sentimental and fit into the hygienic sentimentality that spilled over in the early twentieth century from the Victorian period,” Nagoski said. Humanity’s Deepest Longings, Found in a Bird’s Song 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z This was true during the last golden age of rose gold, which fell around the beginning of the twentieth century, in Imperial Russia. The Semiotics of “Rose Gold” 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Other women, particularly homeopaths, organized locally and focused on lay practice through the first half of the twentieth century. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Both were ultimately captured: Lincoln was tried as a war criminal, briefly imprisoned, and then exiled to Canada, where he died in the early twentieth century; Tubman was executed. “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” a Faux Documentary That Skewers Real White Supremacy 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z It is 1958, and he is working on a long book that will become, in time, one of the great novels of the twentieth century. The Shattering Double Vision of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Colonies remained central to French history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the conquest and administration of vast territories in the Maghreb, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z She plunged into new philosophies and new ideas, swimming in the radical currents of the first decades of the twentieth century. The Rivalry Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Sister Ida 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z From the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, Murphy and Reagan joined with conservative groups around the nation in an effort to overturn the most important liberal achievement of the twentieth century, the New Deal state. Hollywood, right-wing powerhouse 2011-08-31T19:30:00Z Asch seemed like a long-lost ancestor, writing a love scene between two women in the early twentieth century as though it were “Romeo and Juliet.” With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z In one masterstroke, Jim Morrison's siblings have succeeded in affording lovers of music and poetry with an entryway into one of the twentieth century's most enduringly fascinating minds. "A Guide to the Labyrinth" is a portrait of Jim Morrison, the writer, in his own words 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z High on the list is “Zama,” one of the best books written in Spanish during the second half of the twentieth century. What We’re Reading This Summer 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Hana Kaneshige, an educator at the Durham roasting company Counter Culture Coffee, illustrates an American history of mass coffee consumption, beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. The Rise of Coffee-Connoisseur Culture 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Angels is his fourteenth top ten, and his twentieth album overall. Rapper Future Charts His First Number One Album With 'DS2' 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z For most of the twentieth century, the “hard boundaries” that did exist were militarized for actually military reasons. What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z In the twentieth century, under the pressure of enormous social changes, the nineteenth-century consensus was revealed as fragile; its view of reality began to look, one might say, fake. Salman Rushdie on Truth, Lies, and Literature 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z In the end, like any Jew living in the middle of the twentieth century, assimilated or otherwise, he had learned to expect the worst. My Father and Sandy Koufax 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z In his catalog for the show, he praises Colborne as "one of the most interesting, original, and accomplished artists active in Washington State during the first half of the twentieth century." Forests and mountains dominate 'Evergreen Muse: The Art of Elizabeth Colborne' at Whatcom Museum 2011-08-19T18:26:04Z Tito and the Party came out as not only the winners but also as the historical force that carried Yugoslavia into the twentieth century. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Carell’s particular spark as a “Daily Show” correspondent felt native to the middle of the twentieth century, even though it helped shaped the twenty-first. The Best Bit of Steve Carell’s Turn on “S.N.L.” This Week 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z You get the titanic limestone façades of the early twentieth century and the vast impenetrable steel-curtain façades of the mid-century, all of them uncertainly tenanted. When Cars Ruled the Night: New York City, 1974-1976 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Up to the beginning of the twentieth century, every account of the elevator’s history credits another mechanic with a similar-sounding name, Otis Tufts, with its invention, although he is almost forgotten today. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z In the twentieth century, there were exactly seven diagnoses of the disorder. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z But mostly it was the unique talent and keenness of vision that made her write some of the most luminous fiction of the twentieth century. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The reason, Percy later said, was that he saw Catholicism as true, and its truths as standards by which to measure and assess the problems he saw with life in the twentieth century. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z And she’s a fantastic prism through which to look at the second half of the twentieth century. See the Trailer for the New Netflix Series About Queen Elizabeth 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Despite the challenges, Gates and his fellow founders at Microsoft took a dying industry and revamped it into the most widely used and ubiquitous technologies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. How will you change your life — or the world? 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z In retrospect, it’s hard to think of anyone who was a more effective celebrity in the second half of the twentieth century. How Princess Diana Created a New Era of Celebrity 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z A selection of Ziyah Gafić’s photographs will be exhibited at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the twentieth anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Boundaries and Renewal in Bosnia 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z It’s my conviction that she merits a place at the table of significant American artists of the twentieth century. Connie Converse’s Time Has Come 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z There’s an expressly retrospective historical tone to the entire film, as established in its first segment, in which Godard revisits Europe’s political crises of the twentieth century. Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z What seemed modern at the turn of the twentieth century simply felt outdated by the middle of it, in part because baby boomers saw twin beds as something out of their parents’ generation. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Then, in 1998, a board of luminaries convened by the Modern Library placed the trilogy on its list of the best novels of the twentieth century. What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z This is what Kandinsky and the other mystical-minded artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were looking for, and it’s apparently what Glover is looking for, too. Soaring: Savion Glover in 'Om' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Each demolition angers me because we systematically undervalue our architectural heritage of all ages—these buildings span the twentieth century—but particularly postwar construction. Saving Buildings with Social Media 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Eliot once declared that Paul Valéry “will remain for posterity the representative poet . . . of the first half of the twentieth century — not Yeats, not Rilke, not anyone else.” Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Of the three passenger elevators in the building, one was designed specifically to stop at the nineteenth and twentieth floors for Brisbane’s sole use. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z The first narrative takes its title from a Soviet pianist, Sviatoslav Richter, who was considered by some to be one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z She devotes an entire chapter to her boundless enthusiasm for Dorothy Sayers, whom she describes as “one of the great writers of the twentieth century,” an assertion that made this reviewer laugh aloud. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources It meant the disappearance of a key witness to the twentieth century, and of a figure who had become synonymous with Europe’s past and present. Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z As in the sixteenth century, so again in the twentieth: a gathering of forces both natural and supernatural in search of something new under the sun. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z “Bone Rooms” tells the story of “the worst legacies of colonial anthropology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” ‘Bone Rooms’: Where scientific racists stored their ‘evidence’ 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Throughout the nineteenth century, and well into the twentieth, the porous border with Mexico blurred the stark dividing line between white and black in America. A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The endowment derives almost entirely from revenue generated by the land under the Chrysler Building, which was deeded to Cooper Union in the early twentieth century; a small percentage is invested in hedge funds. The Cooper Union Tragedy 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z He spent years collecting photographs of street workers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, people like street scribes, tinkers, organ grinders, cobblers, book-vending crones. Art doesn’t pay 2012-09-30T14:00:00Z By the end of the twentieth century, this guilt-ridden culture seemed to have weakened, as the notion that self-indulgence would benefit both individuals and society gained ground. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z “I wanted to celebrate my twentieth anniversary given it’s a relevant moment for any designer,” Missoni told reporters at the end of the show. Missoni's party collection celebrates designer's 20th anniversary 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z The main drama arises from Louis Sullivan’s efforts, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to develop a new architectural aesthetic, and from his resulting conflict with the architect Daniel Burnham. A Jewish-Refugee Filmmaker’s Urban American Vision 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z No wonder Page described Crowley as the only Edwardian to embrace the twentieth century: he was a media hacker from the very beginning. What exactly lurks within the backward grooves of “Stairway to Heaven?” 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z And we have forgotten the Beatles’ role in the tectonic cultural shift of the second half of the twentieth century, because it has succeeded so completely. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Set in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, it’s a story of middle-class striving and medical tragedy in the Irish-American Leary family. Books to Watch Out For: August 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z And the man who wrote what has been called the most important work of journalism of the twentieth century, as well as a shelf of best-selling novels and works of nonfiction, seems largely forgotten today. John Hersey, the Writer Who Let “Hiroshima” Speak for Itself 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Spoonbill will mark its twentieth anniversary this fall, but Bellamy says that the celebration will be a muted one. Should We Pay to Enter Bookstores? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z From William S. Burroughs and Charles Bukowski to Henry Miller and Sylvia Plath, renowned writers of the twentieth century made paintings, drawings, and collages. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z When Italian immigrants came to New York in the early twentieth century, they brought their tomato sauce and flatbreads with them. Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z A number of states passed laws permitting eugenic sterilization in the early twentieth century, some of which were subsequently struck down in court. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z We could show the history of the twentieth century through the interviews. How Mike Wallace changed TV journalism: "You had to compete" 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Who would’ve thought that such a hard-nosed commercial decision would catalyze one of the greatest works of popular art of the twentieth century? The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to “Peanuts” 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z In Italy, this custom almost completely disappeared over the course of the twentieth century, as pasta carved out its own place on the menu, both at home and in public settings. "One nation united under pasta": How the "discovery of pasta" shaped Italy 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z In the first half of the twentieth century, people increasingly spent their leisure time at home, rather than at theaters, circuses, sporting parks, and fairs, as in the past. TV makes us fat! 2013-09-07T22:00:00Z “That is a German lesson of the twentieth century — for all of us.” Fritz Stern, refugee and leading historian of Germany, dies at 90 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z And although the Ruki's drainage basin makes up only a twentieth of the entire Congo Basin, a fifth of the dissolved organic carbon in the Congo comes from this one tributary. Researchers study one of the world's darkest rivers 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Goldin also demonstrated that, although work opportunities for women expanded in the twentieth century, especially in societies in which children leave the parental home, they were not exploited as much as they could have been. Why Women Earn Less Than Men: Economic Historian Wins Nobel for Work on Gender Pay Gap 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z If current smoking patterns do not change, by the end of the twenty-first century ten times as many people will have died from smoking as during the whole of the twentieth century. Smoking: An Avoidable Health Disaster Explained 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z "Earlier in the twentieth century, people imagined a world of flying cars, where people stayed in touch by ordinary telephones - whereas we now travel in much the same way, but communicate completely differently." Can sci-fi films teach us anything about an AI threat? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Be it Spielberg's edit of the twentieth anniversary edition of E.T., which is not "history" although it is his film's history, or "restricting" previous book publications, we are rapidly losing our collective pasts. History: An inconvenient truth 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The Roman terms for rule would last into the twentieth century CE: the imperial titles of the rulers of both Russia and Germany — “Tsar” and “Kaiser” — meant “Caesar.” The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z World War II was the defining disaster of the twentieth century for millions of people across the globe. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the twentieth century, advancements made the vaccine safer and easier to administer. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Should we consider the formation of an organization like the WTO an innovation of the twentieth century or an outcome directly connected to the trade networks of the past? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The development of technology in the twentieth century that continues today, particularly the technology to describe and manipulate the genetic material, DNA, has transformed biology. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Russian trade with South Africa is less than $1 billion a year, twentieth of the U.S. bilateral trade. A side skirmish in Russia-Ukraine war flares up in South Africa 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The growth of science, the pernicious development of pseudo-science, and the culture struggles that raged in European society all occurred simultaneously, lending to an overall sense of disruption and uncertainty as the twentieth century dawned. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z This photograph shows women in a Swedish factory making parts for lamps at the beginning of the twentieth century. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z While the system was interrupted by the Mongol Yuan dynasty, the Song reforms became the basis for the way Chinese government officials were selected until the fall of the monarchy in the early twentieth century. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In the early twentieth century, biologists began to study what happens to all the alleles in a population in a field of study known as population genetics. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Flynn is “one of the most significant radical leaders of the twentieth century,” the marker’s supporters said in a letter to City Council last year. New Hampshire history marker for communist draws GOP anger 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Reform movements did emerge around the turn of the twentieth century, but modernization did not begin in earnest until after the Qajar period finally came to an end. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z By the beginning of the twentieth century, more middle-class homes had rooms set aside for bathing. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In the twentieth century, particularly after World War I, the idea of inevitable human progress seemed laughable. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In the early twentieth century, English mathematician Godfrey Hardy and German physician Wilhelm Weinberg independently provided an explanation for a somewhat counterintuitive concept. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z After that, another decade-plus passed before this country's true disaster of the twentieth century, the war in Vietnam — the first American war I opposed — in which, once again, the U.S. War, what is it good for? Remarkably little if you're a "great" power in the twenty-first century 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The single most significant background factor to the war was the rivalry that existed between Europe’s “great powers” by the beginning of the twentieth century. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early twentieth century, motor-powered vacuum cleaners made it easier to clean floors. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z This gold crown, likely owned by a queen in the fifth century BCE, was found in a tomb in the early twentieth century in Gyeongju, the capital of Silla. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z A single exception was a research program in the Soviet Union based on Lamarck’s theory during the early twentieth century that set that country’s agricultural research back decades. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Whatever bipartisan comity existed in the twentieth century seems to have largely evaporated; indeed, polling shows that Americans are even moving away from places where they feel their political views aren't welcomed. How to deal with chronically stubborn people 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Hitler was also one of the three “greatest” murderers of the twentieth century, along with Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union and Mao Tse-Tung of China. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the United States and western Europe, children also had largely ceased working in most factories by the beginning of the twentieth century. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Increasingly, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, climate change has also made nomadic life more difficult. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z This is one of the important questions in biology and has been the focus of much research from the latter half of the twentieth century until now. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for example, scientists demonstrated that cutting nerves to the skin could curb some hallmarks of inflammation. Your Brain Could Be Controlling How Sick You Get—And How You Recover 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z The best known phrase associated with the British Empire from the middle of the nineteenth century until the early twentieth was that “the sun never set” over its dominions. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Prisoners building the Amur Cart Road through an isolated part of Russia in the early twentieth century pose for a photograph. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Start with Henry Ford, a folk hero to millions of Americans during the early decades of the twentieth century. "Woke communism”: How corporate America became the bogeyman of today's anti-communist crusaders 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z In the early twentieth century, the North began to adopt this myth as part of the reunification of Northern whites with Southern whites. Ron DeSantis' hypocrisy is his secret weapon 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z |
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