Articles with keyword "twentieth century"
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Newton, The Last Magician
The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.
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Digging Across Panama
The Americans triumphed over yellow fever, landslides, and worker strikes to change the earth's landscape.
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A Sculptured Landscape
Fifty-five outdoor sculptures define a modern sensibility at tiny Ursinus College.
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Mo Yan 101
Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular that he could afford to eat jiaozi—“those tasty little pork dumplings
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After Shock
Maine holds a conference relating war trauma to classical literature in Washington, D.C.
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A Very Hungry Reader
Massachusetts focuses on the food imagery in Eric Carle's illustrations.
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Brain Booster
This ingenious handmade apparatus for cranial osteopathy, ca. 1930s, was constructed from pieces of two catchers’ mitts and a belt. Cranial osteopathy, developed by Dr.
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Akhmatova's Boswell
From the early 1980s until around 2000, there was a publishing explosion of Russian diaries and memoirs recalling Stalin’s Terror and World War II.