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A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100

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Introduction Compact

I goofed somethng up, so I am making a minor revision to fix it.

Having left this thread to attract further comment, I find that I have not attempted a revision for some months. With the New Year (2002) almost upon us, I thought I would try again to clean up the list, according to my lights, and with the comments of posters in mind:

TENTATIVE TOP 100--- AND THEN SOME:
1. Winston Churchill
2. Ronald Reagan
3. Franklin Roosevelt
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. Harry Truman
6. George Marshall
7. Dwight Eisenhower
8. Chester Nimitz
9. Douglas McArthur
10. George Orwell
11. William F. Buckley, Jr.
12. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
13. Andrei Sakharov
14. Lech Walesa
15. Vaclav Havel
16. George Bush
17. Helmut Kohl
18. Konrad Adenauer
19. Charles DeGaulle
20. John Paul II
21. Milton Friedman
22. Fred Hayek
23. John XXIII
24. Martin Luther King
25. Mikhail Gorbachev
26. T.S. Eliot
27. D.H. Lawrence
28. James Joyce
29. G.B. Shaw
29. Albert Camus
30. Franz Kafka
31. Herman Hesse
32. Thomas Mann
33. Samuel Becket
34. Martin Heidegger
35. Karl Jaspers
36. Martin Buber
37. D.T. Suzuki
38. C.S. Lewis
39. G.K. Chesterton
40. Henry Ford
41. The Wright Brothers (in tandem)
42. Marconi/Tesla (acknowledging the dispute)
43. Vladimir Zworkin/Philo Farnsworth (both contributed crucially to television)
44. Alan Turing (computer)
45. George Stibitz (more or less the father of the computer)
46. Goddard
47. Von Braun
48. Marie and Pierre Curie (in tandem)
49. Albert Einstein
50. Robert Watson- Watt (radar)
51. Gordon Moore/Bob Metcalfe (Ethernet)
52. Bardeen/Shockley/Brattain (the transistor)
53. Hoff/Mazor/Faggin (the microprocessor)
54. Paul Erlich (chemotherapy)
55. Alexander Fleming (penicillin)
56. Gerhard Domagk (sulfa drugs)
57. Salk/Sabin (polio vaccine)
58. Watson & Crick (DNA model)
59. William Halsted (surgery)
60. The Mayo Brothers (surgery)
61. Niels Bohr
62. Werner Heisenberg
63. Carl Jung
64. H. G. Wells
65. Aldous Huxley
66. D.W. Griffith
67. Charles Chaplin
68. Frank Capra
69. Fritz Lang
70. John Huston
71. Orson Welles
72. Jean Renoir
73. Federico Fellini
74. Ingmar Bergman
75. Akira Kurosawa
76. Stanley Kubrick
77. Boris Yeltsin
78. Nelson Mandela
79. Agnes De Mille
80. Duke Ellington
81. George & Ira Gershwin
82. Irving Berlin
83. The Beatles
84. Barry Gordy
85. Bob Dylan
86. Louis Sullivan
87. Pablo Picasso
88. Henri Matisse
89. Piet Mondrian
90. Wassily Kandinsky
91. Constantin Brancusi
92. Marcel Duchamp
93. Jackson Pollack
94. Willem De Kooning
95. Frank Lloyd Wright
96. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
97. Walter Gropius
98. Le Courbousier
99. Elvis Presley
100.Martha Graham

I am happy to invite further comments, and, I hope, more discussion. When there have been some changes, I will change the heading to reflect them.......

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3246	Good bye old friend, you were truly a Lion!	sandintoes	1	2/11/2005
3245	Very interesting, although, of course, without the camera, he would still see no	Neocon	-	6/19/2003
3244	Can You See With Your Tongue? The brain is so adaptable, some researchers now t	Volsi Mimir	-	6/19/2003
3243	Yes, so major descriptors, like colors and shapes and sizes, could mean nothing	Neocon	-	6/19/2003
3242	Her only sense was tactile. When her teacher put her hand under running water, t	Tom Clarke	-	6/19/2003
3241	Yes, but what was she naming?, that is my question......	Neocon	-	6/18/2003
3240	We can never know how she perceived things, but learning language enabled her to	Tom Clarke	-	6/18/2003
3239	Truly a remarkable story, and one that is hopeful in its example of transcending	Neocon	-	6/17/2003
3238	Some rules to live by 1. Relax and take it easy. Don't get caught up in hol	Tom Clarke	-	6/15/2003
3237	The Misfit ~A.R. Ammons The unassimilable fact leads us on: round the edges ...	Volsi Mimir	-	6/14/2003
3236	Maybe on the bookshelf behind the Kahlil Gibran....?	Tom Clarke	-	6/13/2003
3235	It's not there....-g- wish I had some-- got some Aphrodite IX but I did find	Volsi Mimir	-	6/12/2003
3234	<i>but where the heck did I put it.......</i> Check behind the pile	Tom Clarke	-	6/12/2003
3233	WHAT HELEN KELLER SAW by CYNTHIA OZICK The making of a writer. Issue of 2003-06-	Tom Clarke	-	6/12/2003
3232	<i>Havel complained to him that the local press "forgets...<b>t	Volsi Mimir	-	5/16/2003
3231	I think that rock and roll was very liberating to dissidents like Havel, and tha	Neocon	-	5/16/2003
3230	It took a lot of courage to write an open letter to his dictator. I think the au	Tom Clarke	-	5/16/2003
3229	Very good essay on Havel. I am glad that he has taken such an unambiguous stand	Neocon	-	5/15/2003
3228	Why Vaclav Havel is our era’s George Orwell reason.com	Tom Clarke	-	5/15/2003
3227	Perhaps he should have been jailed.	Bill	-	11/16/2002
3226	As I stated, JFK was a drug addict. And remember, this comes from the Dem loyal	Zoltan!	-	11/16/2002
3225	It is good to document. Lyndon Johnson pushed corruption to the limits, and was	Neocon	-	5/13/2002
3224	More evidence that Liberal Dems are born corrupt: Honorable Texans W	Zoltan!	-	5/12/2002
3223	Thanks, Gordon, it is worth thinking about, especially given the crucial importa	Neocon	-	5/1/2002
3222	The computer development owes some credit to Max Newman, a Bletchly Park mathema	Gordon A. Langston	-	5/1/2002

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