For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future – a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
I don’t know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.
For most of the twentieth century, a Minnesotan abroad could fix his home state in the cosmos by invoking for his hosts the name Charles Lindbergh or Bob Dylan, native sons who were claimed by the world and never really returned to the Gopher State.
I’m convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century.
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed – but only just – in the middle of the twentieth century.
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
Twentieth century man must boldly reach out… And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth’s surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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