Our Reader's Top 25 of the 20th Century
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The works of Frank Loyd Wright
(1886 - 1959 architecture and design) | | The "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
(1963 address at Washington, D.C. civil rights rally) |
Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
(1913 classical composition) | The works of J.R.R. Tolkien
(1922 - 1967) |
Porgy and Bess by George and Ira Gershwin
(1935 folk opera) | The music of the Beatles
(1962 - 1970 rock recordings) |
The music of Duke Ellington
(1919 - 1966 jazz compositions) | Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
(1966 rock album) |
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
(1939 novel) | The music of The Grateful Dead
(1967–1995 rock jams) |
The Wizard of Oz directed by Victor Fleming
(1939 film) | 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick
(1968 film) |
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
(1940 Russian novel) | The 1969 Moon Landing |
It’s a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra
(1946 film) | Sesame Street produced by the Children’s Television Workshop
(1969–present, television program) |
1984 by George Orwell
(1949 novel) | Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
(1973 rock album) |
I Love Lucy created by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball
(1951–1957 sitcom) | The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial by Maya Lin
(1982 monument) |
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
(1959 jazz album) | The Simpsons created by Matt Groening
(1989–present, television show) |
The works of Dr. Suess
(1937–1991 children’s stories) | Angels in America by Tony Kushner
(1992 play) |