Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your review of Mr. Hutchins' Great Conversation [Sept. 21] points up the end of an era. Adler and Hutchins were the great reactionaries of philosophy at a time when it had reached a low ebb. Flying against the strong winds of experimentalism, their banner of Platonism called the unbeliever to return to the ancient modes of thought. Standing almost alone at times, they did us and the country a very real service...
...name, A Lion is in the Streets is patterned on the career of the late Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. It is a much freer version that the recent Academy Award-winning All the Kings Men and a much less convincing one. While All the Kings Men depicted an era and a people as well as Willy Stark, A Lion is in the Streets portrays only Hank Martin, a character divorced form his context. For this reason it lacks much of the color of its black and white predecessor...
...only an impression at first sight . . . Has Mr. Ruiz Cortines jailed any of his former Cabinet colleagues of the Aleman era? Has he taken away from them the hundreds of thousands or millions of pesos which they had received illegally and corruptly ? Why has he done nothing of this kind? ... If he only had tried to do it, he would have been dead the very day his purpose became known to all these corrupt people who have, today as yesterday, more power and more influence than the decent people like Mr. Ruiz Cortines...
...nature. Frederick J. Turner, writing 50 years later, saw pioneering as the origin of U.S. individualism. A modern U.S. historian, Columbia University's Allan J. Nevins (The Ordeal of the Union), speaking in Dearborn, Mich, to the Society of American Archivists, discussed some added meanings of the modern era in U.S. history-"the emergence of America to the leadership of the Western world." Said Historian Nevins...
...assert that this historical attitude was erroneous. The nation grew none too fast. We can see today that all its wealth, all its strength, were needed to meet a succession of world crises-and we still dwell in a crisis era. Had we applied restrictions to keep our economy small, tame and pure, we would have lost the first World War. Had the United States not possessed the mightiest oil industry, the greatest steel industry, the largest automotive factories . . . and the most ingenious working force in the world, we would indubitably have lost the second World War. Were we significantly...