#20th century

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We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.


Anne Dudley


#20th century #admiration #back #both #century

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.


Sinclair Lewis


#barbarian #century #class #middle #middle class

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.


Dwight Yoakam


#abandonment #became #century #early #film

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.


J. G. Ballard


#almost #becoming #century #everything #fiction

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.


Arthur Erickson


#ancient #because #century #difficult #find

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.


Oriana Fallaci


#age #century #end #having #leaders

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.


Leslie Fiedler


#anybody #centuries #century #know #like

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.


Clifford Geertz


#actually #always #amusing #anthropology #been

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.


Michael Haneke


#back #been #century #demands #director

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.


William L. Jenkins


#been #celebrate #century #community #east