Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...era is thus the first which poses civilization as a problem-which asks itself, what is civilization? This is a great adventure of the spirit. The image it recalls is of a man advancing not in the light, but in the night, lit up only by the torch he bears in his hand...
Alabama Beauty. In the Fitzgerald story, Editor William Hill recaptured the flavor of the flapper era and of the man who recorded and personified it, by simple and authentic means: period jazz (Chicago and New Orleans styles), Fitzgerald's own words and the varied voices of his friends reminiscing about him. The voices of Fitzgerald's friends were what gave this thumbnail radio biography a unique intimacy...
...Republican Party is suffering from a lack of confidence in the theories and principles from which it sprang. It was the party of dynamic capitalism, of manufacturers and independent farmers as opposed to plantation owners, traders and the urban masses. It is a fascinating historical curiosity that in the era of capitalism's greatest practical success (1910-55) it suffered a devastating loss of theoretical prestige. This accounts for the negative quality of so much Republican leadership. Most G.O.P. spokesmen seem able to express what they are against, but not what they...
Born in 1894, in an era of sanctioned pogroms, Babel did not need to see his father in the mud to have a firsthand knowledge of the ordeal of a Russian Jew. In The Story of My Dovecot, Babel tells how his dearest childhood dream was to own some pigeons. One day the excited ten-year-old is racing home with his first set of birds, when a pogrom erupts. A crippled dealer in stolen Jewish goods grabs the boy's sack, and, opening it in disgust, smashes one of the pigeons against the boy's face...
Giacometti plunged into an era of strange experimentation. Friends stopping by his studio found him working 48 hours at a stretch, chain-smoking and muttering as he danced and lunged with a penknife before a hardened clay block. Some of his works took on weird, elongated shapes; others were heads little larger than peanuts. Giacometti insists that he did not try to do it that way; it simply happened. "I've never tried to make my figures come out this way," he explained last week, pointing to a tall figure reminiscent of a grotesquely tallowed candle. "There...