#20th century

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#about #american #best #brightest #century

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world. ↗

— Jon Porter

#century #community #destroyed #european #fueled

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#advertising #century #dwarfs #force #image

One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#19th century #20th century #another #been #century

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#about #accepted #already #being #century

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

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#angeles #atlanta #big #century #cities

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#bearing #century #end #events #horrific

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

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century. ↗

— Stella Blum

#after #back #before #century #had