Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Particularly unusual for Kokoschka are the small naturalistic color lithographs designed as post cards for the Vienna Werkstatte in 1907 and typical of the art nouveau a decorative style popular in the late Victorian era...
...elections: "Laicism is one of the principal cornerstones of modern Turkey. To make concessions on this subject for political reasons is an action not befitting a head of government." Istanbul's Cumhuriyet, another past supporter of Menderes, denounced any plan to "touch the foundation pillar of the Ataturk era." The opposition Republicans and the new Freedom Party blasted Menderes' pronouncement as "unconstitutional" and conceived in failure. Though only last month the government had shut up two newspapers for saying less. Menderes made no reply to last week's attack. In the villages of Anatolia, the mullahs went...
...feel his leaving means the end of the University of Maryland. Rather it may be a second beginning. It may mean a pause in athletics which will give us time to develop more of the academic fundamentals for which the university exists." The Tatum era "was an era in which an inadequate stadium became ultra-adequate ... It was an era in which those academic programs common to other universities were called off at Maryland due to lack of student interest. It was an era in which our accreditation was partially threatened because of an overemphasis on athletic scholarships...
Artistic taste today is likely to dismiss Painter John Singer Sargent as briskly as it does that whole great clutter of heavy gilt frames, dusty plush draperies and ornate grandeurs that marked his vanished era. It is only 30 years since Sargent died, half a century since the Edwardian peak of his fame; yet the interval can hardly be measured by years alone. Just how far and fast fashions have changed since Sargent's day could best be seen this week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, celebrating the centennial of the painter's birth with...
Umberto D. The camera sips, more in sorrow than in anger, the dregs of old age; Vittorio De Sica writes a fine finis to the neorealist era in Italian cinema (TIME...