In addition to its mainstage season, which emphasizes 20th-century American classics, new works, area premieres, reinterpretations of classics and musical theater, OTC offers a wide range of programs and affiliations including: National Players, America's longest running classical touring company ( since 1949 ), which performs for high school and college audiences in over 25 states ; Potomac Theatre Project, which offers experimental and alternative plays that explore provocative and challenging human situations, ideas and visions ; special school performances of mainstage shows ; and post-show discussions.

Georg Karl Julius Hackenschmidt ( — 19 February 1968 ) was an early 20th-century strongman and professional wrestler.

A number of major 20th-century covenant theologians including Karl Barth, Klaas Schilder, and John Murray have departed from the traditional recognition of a Covenant of Works to develop a monocovenantal scheme subsuming everything under one Covenant of Grace.

Keynesian economics ( ; also called Keynesianism and Keynesian theory ) are the group of macroeconomic schools of thought based on the ideas of 20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes.

The changes that took place at the beginning of the 20th-century are emphasized by the fact that many modern disciplines, including sciences such as physics, mathematics, neuroscience and economics, and arts such as ballet and architecture, call their pre-20th century forms classical.

While the traditional home electronic organ is a relative rarity today, the Electone's late 20th-century transformation into a true synthesizer, capability and portability led to its becoming, along with its competitors, the successor in many ways to the famous Hammond electronic organ models of mid-century.

As is typical in a certain genre of romantic 19th-century and early 20th-century literature, each of the farm's inhabitants has some long-festering emotional problem caused by ignorance, hatred, or fear, and the farm is badly run.

A solitary figure in 20th-century American academic life, briefly a socialist in his youth, a lapsed leftist intellectual conservative by the time he was in graduate school, a teacher of composition, a Platonist philosopher who wrote on the problem of universals and criticized nominalism, a literary and cultural critic, and a theorist of human nature and society.

Kierkegaard's concept of angst is considered to be an important stepping stone for 20th-century existentialism.

The area's industrial history is reflected in dozens of 19th-and early 20th-century manufacturing sites in the city.

Of particular interest to 20th-century music theorists is the attention he paid to silence as an integral part of music.

The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton said of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that " his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings ".

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm ( 1945 ), which together have sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author.

H. P. Lovecraft is now noted as a significant figure in 20th-century horror fiction.

Some 20th-century historians such as John Clapham and Nicholas Crafts have argued that the process of economic and social change took place gradually and the term revolution is a misnomer.

Agorism is a radical left-libertarian form of anarchism, developed from anarcho-capitalism in the late 20th-century by Samuel Edward Konkin III ( a. k. a. SEK3 ).

Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of 19th-and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and his or her emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts.

Okonomiyaki ( pancake with ingredient mixed into the batter ) in the form it is familiarly now known is also considered non-traditional, since they are 20th-century creations flavored with a form of Worcestershire sauce.

Lawrence is among the best-known 20th-century African-American painters, a distinction shared with Romare Bearden.

The oldest attested form is the yellow form, called in the 19th century, but renamed by Elizaburo Hoshino, an early 20th-century koi breeder.

The 20th-century Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler is frequently quoted as defining love from the Jewish point of view as " giving without expecting to take " ( from his Michtav me-Eliyahu, Vol.

Lesbian as a concept, used to differentiate women with a shared sexual orientation, is a 20th-century construct.

However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, " There is no noise, only sound.

Olivier later starred in what is among the most famous 20th-century productions, by Glen Byam Shaw at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1955.

One of the most notable 20th-century productions is that of Trevor Nunn for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ( MNCARS ) is the official name of Spain's national museum of 20th-century art, located in Madrid ( informally shortened to the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofia Museum.

Bujold ’ s father and brother were engineers, and many of the technological details she incorporates are based on 20th-century engineering situations, projected into null-g or alternative solar system situations ( this is especially true of Falling Free, the most technologically dense of the novels ).

This is due to a 20th-century development triggered by Ferdinand de Saussure's insistence on the importance of synchronic analysis, and the later emergence of structuralism and Chomskyan linguistics with its emphasis on syntax.

Philosophical Investigations ( Philosophische Untersuchungen ) is a highly influential work by the 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Yet another story, The Man Who Came Early, features a 20th-century United States Army soldier stationed in Iceland who is transported to the tenth century.

The early 20th-century explorer Herbert Weld Blundell opined that " Didessa " appears to have replaced a much older name for this river, finding no earlier usage for it " before 1861, when d ' Abbadie was travelling in Western Shoa and made inquiries.

The early 20th-century explorer, Herbert Weld Blundell, describes finding that " two distinct terraces of former shores rise some 80 feet above the present level, forming a ring round that nearest to the lake on the north, about 4 miles from the shore, marking a former basin.

In a general sense, painters such as Matthias Grünewald and El Greco are sometimes termed expressionist, though in practice the term is applied mainly to 20th-century works.

A group of 20th-century French mathematicians published many works under the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki, named after the general.

" Looking back on Canby's record, a 20th-century adjutant general, Edward F. Witsell, described Canby's position as " similar to that of an Assistant to the Secretary of the Army.

In general, whether a 20th-century reader would view the book as consisting of dozens of impersonations or a single one, Swift writes the Tale through the pose of a Modern or New Man.

Among 20th-century American men of letters, he maintained a notably high profile and level of popularity with the general public, as well as a reputation for considerable craftsmanship in his output.

The 1948 general election is considered an important election in 20th-century Ireland, as it paved the way for the First Inter-Party Government.

He has also written several works of general history on 20th-century Russia such as A History of Twentieth-Century Russia.

Despite the use of the word " World " in its name, the general look and theme of World Bazaar is that of early 20th-century America, matching the " Main Street, U. S. A ." areas of other Magic Kingdom-style parks.

In addition to functioning as Steinberg's official estate, the Foundation is also a non-profit organization with a mission " to facilitate the study and appreciation of Saul Steinberg's contribution to 20th-century art " and to " serve as a resource for the international curatorial-scholarly community as well as the general public.

| 13551 Gadsden || || Michael Gadsden, 20th-century Scottish astronomer, secretary general of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy

Eccles was not immune to the general 20th-century decline of the United Kingdom's textile industry.

Since then, the 20th-century history of the Polish Jews have been widely popularized, including the circumstances surrounding the Massacre in Jedwabne, the Koniuchy Massacre, the Polish-Jewish wartime as well as postwar relations in general, Stalinist reign of terror and the March 1968 events.

* John A. Wickham, Jr., 20th-century American general