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the turn of the century

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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive. Edward Bond

We have a right to expect that the Negro community will be responsible, will uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, that the Constitution will be color blind, as Justice Harlan said at the turn of the century. John F. Kennedy

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century. Jonathan Larson

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Betty Friedan

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