Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...please leave us to our own interpretation of the works of Al Capp [TIME, Sept. 13]- undoubtedly the most brilliant satirist of our era. His genius defies interpretation . . . Like fine music, Capp's cartoons mean many things to many people. Don't spoil...
...era was dawning in Cape Breton Island's long-troubled coalfields. Most of the old bitterness between management and labor was gone, and they were working together to increase production. (Only two years ago, a Royal Commission had reported: "The men ... so distrusted the present management that they could see no hope for ... cooperation between men and management in improving the efficiency of production...
Walls of Jericho (20th Century-Fox) is a protracted and generally unrewarding study of life in a Kansas county seat during the Teddy Roosevelt era. The principals: a politically hopeful lawyer (Cornel Wilde); his drunken wife (Ann Dvorak); Lawyer Wilde's newspaper editor friend (Kirk Douglas); his sumptuous bride (Linda Darnell); a young girl (Anne Baxter) who has secretly worshipped Lawyer Wilde from her pigtail days...
...today the "sweet madness" of that era, as Editor Hodapp calls it, may seem neither very sweet nor so terribly mad, still it is possible that many middle-aged readers will find in this book's backward glance a nostalgic moment-less, perhaps, for the actual quality of life in the '20s than for the kind of easy illusions it was then possible to cultivate...
...Frederick Lewis Allen has proved, the age of only yesterday, and the day before, is already history and ripe for retelling. .There is even gold to be found in ransacking the closets of the 19205-the era of the flapper and the grimacing mobster, the devotees of sex dives and bathtub gin, the frilly esthetes and champions of companionate marriage. William Hodapp has pasted together, with some success, an anthology reflecting the era through its fiction. The stories provide dramatic evidence of how drastically and quickly the patterns of U.S. life can change during a lifetime...