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Article: That was the century that was Friday Book: MODERN TIMES, MODERN ...
The Independent - London;  November 27, 1998 ;     700+ words ...BY THE time one has read all 736 pages of Peter Conrad's account of life and art in the 20th century, it is difficult to avoid a sense of fin-de-siecle. Like the 20th century ...

Article: BOOKS: LITTLE ORSON ANNIE His parents' deaths freed Orson Welles ...
The Independent on Sunday;  September 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Foster Kane lurches to his death. So there's no need for Peter Conrad's new critical study to issue an embarrassed cough before ... been Prince Hamlet, too, had he not eaten all the pies. Peter Conrad is that rare thing, a British academic with a sharp, stimulating ...

Article: Welles never dried up Gerald Kaufman on a man who made one of the ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Welles's career - which lasted for four further decades after he made Citizen Kane in 1942 at the age of 25 - the Oxford don Peter Conrad tries to explain how and why, after that precociously epoch-making start in the cinema, Welles never again made a Hollywood ...

Article: Paperbacks: Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter ...
The Independent - London;  October 30, 1999 ;     298 words ...Just the book for those "well, what was that all about?" moments on 31 December 1999. Conrad delivers in bulk on art and life since 1900, sprinkling smart aphorisms through this high-speed cultural chronicle. The gang's all here, from Mahler to Mapplethorpe. There are gaps and skimpy bits: he does

Article: Paperback book review: Modern Times, Modern Places by ...
The Independent - London;  September 5, 1999 ;     327 words ...Uh-oh, here comes that darned fin de siecle again. God and certainty are dead, and Conrad has rounded up the usual suspects: Einstein, Joyce, Eliot, Schoenberg, Bauhaus, the Russian Revolution, the atom bomb, Andy Warhol, yadda yadda yadda There is nothing hugely novel about the book's central

Transcript: Analysis: Groups fight new science standards in Kansas
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  November 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... At the museum, Director Leonard Krishtalka says the exhibit, funded by ... in the fossil record. Mr. LEONARD KRISHTALKA (Museum Director): For example ... technological. ALLEN: Educators like Leonard Krishtalka worr

Article: Knowledge and beliefs
The Topeka Capital-Journal;  October 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... explore-evolution.unl.edu Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Natural History ... University of Kansas, and museum director Leonard Krishtalka answer reporters' questions at a ... described in the Bible." To that, Leonard Krishtalka, director of the KU museum, said ...