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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (673)	10/22/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I didn't realize you had posted an alternative Top 20 list, MM. And I wish I had time right now to critique it, but, alas, I do not... I will say that I find it more balanced than Neo's, although I can't back all of your choices 100%. I would disagree with you about excluding High Culture, however. Of course, the average man in the streets of the world may not have heard of James, Picasso, Stravinsky, or Heidegger, but it is quite possible he may have been influenced by them indirectly. Besides, it's hard for me to imagine 20th century civilization without them. I'll go further, and say that without them, we cannot even say there has been any civilization in the 20th century! Nothing left but wars, prison camps, and destruction....If they are all dropped from the top 100, then I will be tempted to say, along with e.e. cummings: listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go! And then, what about Henry Ford? Where are the Wright Brothers? Marie Curie? All the makers & doers & discoverers? Can't tell me they haven't influenced the lives of the Joe Sixpacks of the world! Now, as to Chechnya. Are you allowed on the Kosovo thread? I have posted there lately... Joan