Just As MANY Golfers Feel A Kinship With BEN Hogan Or Bobby Jones After Studying Their Lives, Such Is The Closeness I Feel With Lawson Little Jr. Little Quite SIMPLY Is The Most Underappreciated Golfer Of The FIRST Half Of The 20th CENTURY.

People Who Teach AMERICAN History Survey Classes Have A LOT Of Ground To COVER And Tend To Focus On Landmarks. You Get Through The Civil War And Reconstruction, And You Have To Get To The Beginning Of The 20th CENTURY Fast. It's Pretty Easy To Go LIGHTLY On The Gilded Age.

When You Think About CHOIR Music, That's A Cappella. You Have Church Choir That You WOULD SING WITHOUT Any Instrument. I Think The Popular Form That We Have Now Is Barbershop In The 20th Century, And The Collegiate Movement.

America Is The Big Subject Of The Second Half Of The 20th Century, Tackled In One Form Or Another By All The Great American MALE WRITERS. You Could Make A Case For SAYING That It Was The Only GAME In TOWN - From Bellow To Roth To Updike To Richard Ford - America Was More Or Less Explicitly The Leitmotif.

When E.U. Governments Are Able To Agree On Political And Economic POLICIES, They Will Remain A Superpower To Influence The Americans, The RUSSIANS, Indians And Chinese Over The Coming DECADES. Britain On Its Own WOULD Resume The DECLINE Which Continued Through Most Of The 20th Century.

During The 20th Century, The GREATEST DANGER To European Stability Was GERMANY's Sense Of Its Special DESTINY. During The 21st Century, The Greatest Danger To European Stability Is Germany's Reluctance To Accept Its Special Destiny.

So MANY NEW Things Have Been Discovered In The 20th Century That Now, At The End Of The Century, We Need Some KIND Of Synthesis, Some Musical Language Which Will ALLOW Us Just To Write Music.

The 21st CENTURY Is Significantly Different From The 20th Century. The Old Models Will Not Hold ANYMORE. More And More, We Are One People On Earth. We NEED To Share Our Problems.

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.