Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wonderful Town. An adaptation of the 1940s hit play My Sister Eileen about two sisters from Columbus, Ohio who invade New York City to seek their fortunes. The music's by Leonard Bernstein and includes songs like "Ohio," "Swing," "Quiet Girl" and "It's Love." A good bet for nostalgia buffs. At the Loeb, December 4-7 and 10-13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
Third, the prevention of Soviet expansion, which remains a primary objective of American policy, has to be carried out in a more complicated way than in the 1940s and 1950s...
Bohr and his Chicago-born collaborator Mottelson (also a Danish citizen), both associated with Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute, *and Rainwater, of Columbia University, were cited for their 1940s and 1950s research on the inner structure of the atom. They helped explain oddities in the nucleus' behavior by showing that its myriad components spun and vibrated so as to distort the nucleus into an unexpected ellipsoid, rather than a sphere. These new insights helped set the stage for many of the important advances in particle physics during the past two decades of experimentation...
...time when Spain badly needs closer ties with Western Europe to help sustain its rise to prosperity and ease the coming transition, an all but irrational outburst of anti-Spanish emotions in European capitals has left the country more isolated than at any other time since the 1940s...
From the fifth inning on, I could not take my eyes off her. She had splendid brown hair that bounced and she wore pastel blue like a picture in a 1940s magazine. It didn't look as though she smiled that much; she just gracefully extended her legs over the concrete ledge past the red rail and not even the foul balls--hot white smears that lunged her way after inside pitches--seemed to faze her. There were half a dozen men around her, and a little boy beside her; I was in the eighth row, in a chairback seat...