Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college has spawned a successor, called in this more dignified era, the Harvardians. In keeping with its name, the newer group is smoother and more suave than were the hell-for-leather Gold Coasters. Many of the old jump arrangements saved from former times by Harvardian trumpeter, George Springer, whose career started back in the Randloph days, have been regretfully left in their covers, apparently unwanted by the jaded dancers of the late forties. The musicians have had to work off their excess energy on fast waltzes, rumbas and sambas. Answering the current demand for gentility in dance music, leader...
Roughly, the theory goes like this: regardless of issues and men, ever since the Revolution a pendulum has swung back and fourth, carrying the American people now into a liberal era, now into a conservative era; it is, to change the metaphor, a spiral movement going from a "period of change" into a "period of stabilization" and on into a new period of change, and so on; and--note this--each of these periods lasts, with one or two exceptions, from 12 to 16 years. Now I'm not saying that Schlesinger would feel he had to get up there...
...period, has nothing of Strachey's amused, amusing manner, nothing of his skepticism and silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...
Said the CRIMSON, "The events of 1926 are veiled in legend. Today is one which starts a now era in our athletic history...
...main, however, Life With Mother, like Life With Father, is the broadly painted picture of a man and a marriage, the chronicle of a household and record of a class. Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat, chiefly at the hands of a wife who flutters helplessly with cunning. Here again are growing boys and departing servants, the wall phones and other period touches, the breakfast tables and other permanent realities, of well-heeled bourgeois life...