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		<title>Summary: Twentieth Century Thought and Letters</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Views of history change constantly. As historians view the last forty years, they face the difficulty of evaluating recent historical trends, such as economic cycles or the worldwide impact of the arms race. Today Western civilization can no longer be seen as separate from world culture.]]></description>
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		<title>Dual Goals, Dual Models In The Twentieth Century</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many observers feared that there had been a slow breakdown in what was once understood to be the social contract. Much of humanity was struggling with dual goals: to achieve freedom and to create equality, to protect the rights of the individual and to meet obligations to others.]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Arts In The Twentieth Century</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop sculpture featured plaster casts of real people surrounded by actual pieces of furniture in a three-dimensional comic strip of devitalized, defeated humanity. At the other extreme, sculpture in the grand manner experienced a rebirth, in good measure due to the work of two British artists.]]></description>
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		<title>Painting In The Twentieth Century</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No painter could better serve as a representative of the endless variety and experimentation of twentieth-century painting than the versatile and immensely productive Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).

A native Spaniard and adopted Frenchman, Picasso painted in many styles and periods. For example, the paintings of his "blue period" in the early 1900s, with their exhausted and defeated people, had a melancholy, lyrical quality that reflected the]]></description>
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		<title>Literature In The Twentieth Century</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twentieth-century writers surprised the prophets of doom. Poetry remained, for the most part, what it had become in the late nineteenth century: difficult, cerebral, and addressed to a small audience.

An occasional poet broke from the privacy of limited editions to wide popularity; representative was the attention given to T. S. Eliot (1888-1965). His difficult yet moving symbolic poem, "The Waste Land," or his invocation to "The Hollow Men," which closed with the lines

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Literature and the Arts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As societies became more and more literate, reading matter changed, becoming both simpler and much cheaper and also more complex and symbolic in its more elite expressions.

This was true of painting and the other arts as well. A wider gulf opened between those who read, or viewed, for entertainment and those who sought information, analyses, or complexity of emotional expressions.]]></description>
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		<title>Science and the Quality of Life In The Twentieth Century</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chemistry, which made possible plastics, synthetic fibers, and many other innovations, also greatly affected daily life by its impact on food, clothing, and most material objects. Chemistry assisted the very great gains made by the biological sciences and their application to medicine and public health.]]></description>
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		<title>The Revolution in Physics In The Twentieth Century</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the great scientific event of the twentieth century was the revolution in physics symbolized for the public by Albert Einstein (1879-1955). This revolution centered on radical revisions made in the Newtonian world-machine, the mechanistic model of the universe that had been accepted for more than two centuries.]]></description>
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		<title>Twentieth Century Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the twentieth century each science, and each branch of each science, continued its ever more intense specialization. Cooperation among pure scientists, applied scientists, engineers, bankers, business people, and government officials produced exponential increases.]]></description>
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		<title>Historicism In The Twentieth Century</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably the most widespread philosophical movement of the century developed on the margin of formal philosophy and the social sciences. This movement is called historicism—the attempt to find in history an answer to those ultimate questions of the structure of the universe and of human fate that the philosopher has always asked.]]></description>
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