Theater scholar Charlotte Canning, of the University of Texas at Austin where Williams ' archives are located, has said, " There is no more influential 20th-century American playwright than Tennessee Williams ...

He started as a playwright at the time when Yiddish theater was bringing to America challenging modern classics such as the works of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, and Leo Tolstoy that, at that time, had not been presented on the English-language American stage, and continued into the era of the Yiddish Art Theater, when Yiddish theater rivalled any in the world in defining 20th-century theatrical practice.

* Augusto Novelli, Italian playwright known for using the Tuscan dialect for 20th-century Florentine theater

Under the 20th-century editorship of Colonel Robert R. McCormick the paper was strongly isolationist and actively biased in its coverage of political news and social trends, calling itself " The American Paper for Americans ," excoriating the Democrats and the New Deal, resolutely disdainful of the British and French and greatly enthusiastic for Chiang Kai-shek and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

One example is I, Claudius, by 20th-century writer Robert Graves ; another is the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough.

In I, Claudius, by 20th-century writer Robert Graves, the Roman Emperor Claudius, until then commonly regarded as inept by historians, is presented in a more sympathetic light.

The 20th-century English author Robert Graves accepted Iolo's version of Hu Gadarn ( and much of the rest of his work ), and further identified Hu as a Welsh horned god, a variant of Cernunnos.

* Diana Ross, 20th-century children's book author related to Robert Ross

Robert Kipniss and Peter Ilsted are two notable 20th-century exponents of the technique ; M. C. Escher also made seven mezzotints.

Among late 20th-century anarcho-pacifists was autarchist Robert LeFevre, who based his pacifism on his belief in the inviolability of property rights.

The use of standardized testing in the United States is a 20th-century phenomenon with its origins in World War I and the Army Alpha and Beta tests developed by Robert Yerkes and colleagues.

Although examples of such prophecies can be found in literature as far back as ancient Greece and ancient India, it is 20th-century sociologist Robert K. Merton who is credited with coining the expression " self-fulfilling prophecy " and formalizing its structure and consequences.

Furness's independence and modernist Victorian-Gothic style inspired 20th-century architects Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi.

Confessional free verse poetry became the popular approach in the second half of the 20th-century American poetry due, in large part, to the popularity of American poets like Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Allen Ginsberg in the 1950s and 60s.

To house its growing collections of modern and contemporary art, and to provide more space for exhibitions, the museum hired the architectural firm of Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates to design its $ 35. 3-million, 115, 000-square-foot Robert O. Anderson Building for 20th-century art, which opened in 1986 ( renamed the Art of the Americas Building in 2007 ).

For example, 20th-century Martinist author Robert Ambelain initially claimed that Saint-Martin founded an order called the " Society of Initiates ," but within a few years became disillusioned with the concept and stated that the Society of Initiates never existed.

Henri Matisse, Porte-fenêtre à Collioure, ( French Window at Collioure ), 1914, Centre Georges Pompidou, Throughout my life, the 20th-century painter whom I've admired the most has been Matisse, Robert Motherwell 1970.

Robert Casadesus ( April 7, 1899 in Paris – September 19, 1972 in Paris ) was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer.

Work by The Eight, which included former Academy students Robert Henri and John Sloan, is well represented in the collection, and provides a transition between 19th-and 20th-century art movements.

( 1969 – 1971 ), a trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, is regarded by many as the definitive work of 20th-century conspiracy fiction.

These views of Gould Davis on a Great Goddess predominating in Neolithic Europe and the Near East are similar to those made by a number of writers in the early and mid 20th-century, including Eric Neumann, Merlin Stone, Marija Gimbutas, J. J. Bachofen, Walter Burket, James Mellart, Robert Briffault.

Although the original commission for the opera suggested that U. S. physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the " father of the atomic bomb ," be fashioned as a 20th-century Doctor Faustus, Adams and Sellars deliberately attempted to avoid this characterization.

American 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote: " f all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man ’ s life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth.

Thomas Mann's 1947 Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde adapts the Faust legend to a 20th-century context, documenting the life of fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn as analog and embodiment of the early 20th-century history of Germany and of Europe.

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

A suggestion that a gentleman must have a coat of arms was vigorously advanced by certain 19th-and 20th-century heraldists, notably Arthur Charles Fox-Davies in England and Thomas Innes of Learney in Scotland.

In 1919, Thomas Maitland Cleland and Morris Fuller Benton produced the first 20th-century commercial Garamond, based on the Jannon ’ s design, called Garamond # 3.

His descendants have continued to be prominent in Missouri life ; his great-nephew, also Thomas Hart Benton, was a 20th-century painter.

Alfred Blalock ( April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964 ) was a 20th-century American surgeon most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and for the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, a surgical procedure he developed together with surgical technician Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig to relieve the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot — known commonly as the blue baby syndrome.

More recently, composer Alfred Schnittke provided controversial cadenzas with a characteristically 20th-century flavor ; violinist Gidon Kremer has recorded the concerto with the Schnittke cadenzas.

More recent features include early 20th-century drinking basins, designed to collect pure rainwater for grouse to drink.

More recently, the Seminole refused to share with them the revenues of 20th-century US government settlements of land claims.

More recently, Paramount Chief is a formal title created by British administrators during the 19th and 20th-century Colonial era and used in India, Africa and Asian colonies.

More modern 19th and 20th-century approaches took to glossing vertically, aligning the same sort of word-by-word content in such a way that the metalanguage terms were placed vertically below the source language terms.

A staging at the English National Opera in London, produced by Nicholas Hytner in 1983, placed the hero in the context of 20th-century totalitarianism.

Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE ( 13 December 1906 – 16 December 1996 ) was a 20th-century Afrikaner author, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist.

The Randian hero is a ubiquitous figure in the fiction of 20th-century novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, most famously in the figures of The Fountainheads Howard Roark and Atlas Shruggeds John Galt.

In the late 20th-century, Most Guatemala emerged from a 36-year civil war ( 1960 – 96 ), which re-established representative democracy in 1996.

* William Kelly ( Australian politician ) ( 1877 – 1960 ), 20th-century Australian politician

In the 20th-century the sensorium became a key part of the theories of Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Carpenter and Walter J. Ong ( Carpenter and McLuhan 1960 ; Ong 1991 ).

The way Vanbrugh, in his turn, allows the reformed rake to relapse quite cheerfully, and has the only preaching in the play come from the comically corrupt parson of " Fatgoose Living ", has made some early 20th-century critics refer to The Relapse as the last of the true Restoration comedies.

Some early 20th-century Ottoman-area Jewish schools taught ' udand mandoline to girls, and some women learned to play the piano.

* The Decision ( play ), by the 20th-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht

The station does, however, play a fair amount of 20th-century classical works.

Soldiers of misfortune: Mercenaries play major roles in 20th-century conflicts, from CNN's 1989 Cold War series.

It appears in a number of early 20th-century novels, and in Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, where Eliza Dolittle is sent " to Whiteleys to be attired.