Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This book, published in 1948, gave him a lesson in the semantics of U.S. publishing. His original title, The End of the Protestant Era?, was vetoed by the publishers on the grounds that no book with a question mark in the title sells well. "Then leave off the question mark," said Tillich. "That would be giving too much comfort to the Catholics," said his Protestant friends...
Concerning Flexibility. "There is no peculiar virtue in the concept of flexibility," said he. "To me, flexibility implies compromise and concession. When applied to fundamental principles-right principles-flexibility is not only without virtue; it becomes a vice . . . Have we forgotten the lessons of the Hitler era, with its compromises, concessions and flexibilities...
...Reiner's assurance that he would try to set up a six-week European tour in the spring of 1960, Chicago papers set up a clamor: "For the first time," wrote Critic Roger Dettmer in the American, "Chicago might have gained a reputation for something else than Prohibition Era hoodlums, gang wars and civic graft. Fritz Reiner owes Chicago an explanation...
...great lesser-known works of choral literature is the Requiem of Gabriel Faure. Written near the end of the 19th Century, this hauntingly beautiful score stands apart, almost completely detached from the influences of the late Romantic era. It is a brooding, restless piece, characterized by tentative, unresolved progressions, chromatic exploration, repeated figures, and a limited but unusual harmonic scheme. Above all it illustrates Faure's extremely delicate feeling for both line and texture, his carefully balanced sense of structure and climax...
Strauss and Congress, there was hope for an era of good feeling under new AEC Chairman John A. McCone, who talked of a more vigorous program-just what the committee wanted...