Word: 1870s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best western so far in 1961 is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like...
...best western released so far in 1961, is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like-a hideously silent war of wits with a subtle, cruel enemy who was seldom seen until it was too late...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union last week held its Syth annual convention, and the ladies addressed themselves in the name of God to "returning the nation to sobriety." That task is harder now than it was even in "those terrible days of wild drink" in the 1870s, when the WCTU gained momentum in Chicago under the embattled leadership of Frances E. Willard. Then the crusade against strong drink was part of the war between men and women; now the women seem to bend their pink elbows as much...
Gamblers & Colonizers. In half a dozen books (Old Jules, Slogum House} about settlers, cowmen and sheepherders of the 1870s, Nebraska's Mari Sandoz, 61, has tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down...
...after the Civil War. His mother, a strong but withdrawn woman, could not make up the loss. When Millhouser leaves for college he is starved for love, and he finds a substitute in an absorbing friendship with a brilliant young man a few years his senior. Innocence in the 1870s is hardly more surprising than blue eyes, and it is not until they have traveled through Europe together for several months that Millhouser discovers his friend to be a homosexual. He returns in dismay to Pennsylvania and takes up a quiet life in his mother's house...