Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discuss nostalgia critically is what ultimately dooms For the Love of the Game. Wilber, who spent her childhood following her father, Philadelphia Phillies catcher Del Wilber, around the major leagues, begins this book of baseball testimonials with a tired premise--that America's finest moments occurred during the 1950s, a "time in American history when heroes were important and plentiful and American as a nation had dreams...
Previously, most tutors in the 1950s had Ph.Ds, while today the majority of them are still graduate students, according to Heimert...
Rifts on the right are nothing new. Before he became a campaign-trail phenomenon, Buchanan was just a standard 1950s-style conservative who believed in isolationism, protectionism and white people. The ideology he was steeped in as a child -- some call it "paleoconservatism" -- was overtaken during the 1960s and '70s by a more interventionist, internationalist group contaminated by heresies like civil rights and support for Israel. These variations annoyed Buchanan, who for months before the race likened neoconservatives to "fleas who conclude they are steering the dog." When Buchanan began his quixotic presidential bid in December, notes Tony Fabrizio...
Whatever the truth of that assertion, technological advances have taken a heavy toll on U.S. telephone operators over the years. Their number has dwindled from nearly 250,000 to just 70,000 since AT&T introduced direct-dial long-distance service in the early 1950s...
...Washington arm. It turns out that the CIA and First American were a lot closer than that. Government investigators now have proof that First American had long been the CIA's principal banker. Some of the more than 50 agency accounts uncovered at the bank date back to the 1950s. B.C.C.I. owned the CIA's bank for a decade. But since Reagan CIA Director William Casey ran a vast back-door operation during the 1980s, the full extent of B.C.C.I.'s relationship with the intelligence agency may never be known...