Word: 1950s
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Tischler said she thinks access to the letters will help scholars who are interested in topics ranging from Williams' life and work as a playwright to attitudes towards homosexuals in the 1950s and 1960s...
Colin Powell has clearly gone to school on Dwight Eisenhower. The comparison here is between two politicians, not two generals. All during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the nation wondered whether Ike would seek the White House--as a Democrat or Republican didn't matter. Ike professed no interest but stealthily fed the boomlet, as recounted by his biographer Stephen Ambrose, who also happens to be a key cog in the draft-Powell movement. "To be a successful candidate," Ambrose has written, Ike "had to appear not to be a candidate. His speeches had to be forceful without being...
While the threat from global warming is purely theoretical, the danger from an old-fashioned, decades-long spate of stormy seasons is real. Gray says we need look back only to the 1950s and '60s, when 21 hurricanes pummeled the U.S., to see what could lie ahead for coastal residents. Those hurricanes took hundreds of lives in the U.S. and thousands in the Caribbean. While lives can be protected by early warning and prompt evacuation, protecting property is another matter. If Hurricane Andrew had veered just 20 miles farther north on its destructive path through South Florida...
...residence. In May 1986 the Hall of Fame board, after considering such sites as New York City and Memphis, Tennessee, decided to locate in Cleveland. Ostensibly, the city was selected because it's the place where local deejay Alan Freed popularized the term rock 'n' roll in the early 1950s; perhaps more important, local leaders, eager for a tourist attraction, raised $65 million in public funds to help build the hall. "It wasn't Alan Freed. It was $65 million," says Cleveland Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman. "Cleveland wanted it here and put up the money." Still, there were...
...Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, notably 1938's panic-provoking War of the Worlds broadcast. His fine craft illuminated film scripts for Casablanca (1942), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) and-notoriously-the Soviet-friendly Mission to Moscow in 1943. Though not a communist, Koch was blacklisted in the 1950s. He outlived his vilifiers, enduring with grace and grit worthy of Bogart's Rick...