Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss. All that remains to remind people of the hated era of collectivization, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes from Morawice last week, is a little signboard in the center of the village square, which .bears faded posters of another government, with pictures of Warsaw's Russian-built "Palace of Culture." The new attitude towards the party was summed up by an ancient pitchfork-brandishing farmer: "I'm my own boss now and when some party man comes out to tell me to go out to rake hay for the nation, I have a big needle for his back...
...every field of human endeavor, the mid-19th century was a time of frenetic activity and massive achievement. Is it true that the generation which constructed the transatlantic cable and the transcontinental railroad was unable to build a decent house? The truth is that an enormously creative and progressive era produced an enormously creative and progressive architecture...
Complete Harmony. Many of the sins attributed to the Victorian architectural era (1837-76), says Maass, were committed when the U.S. began to copy older forms of architecture rather than following the Victorian principle of developing a style with only inspiration from abroad. Among the best examples of real Victorian, Maass cites the famed Carson Mansion at Eureka, Calif...
...Austrian-born John Maass, the American Victorian buildings "are perfect symbols of an era which was not given to understatement. They are in complete harmony with the heavy meals, strong drink, elaborate clothes, ornate furnishings, flamboyant art, melodramatic plays, loud music, flowery speeches and thundering sermons of mid-19th century America. Most of our own buildings stand on the shifting quicksand of insecurity-Victorian architecture was founded on the rock of superb confidence...
Harriet saw. In Paris she staked out a claim to her private gold mine-a cosmetic cream that she claimed was invented for Madame Recamier. a premature career girl of the Napoleonic era. In due course, Harriet returned to the U.S. with her saucer of cream. It was a business triumph but a personal disaster. Along the way she had committed her daughter Margaret to the care of a frenetic novelist and proprietor of a finishing school named Blanche Willis Howard, who became The False Friend Who Poisoned Her Daughter's Mind Against Her Mother. She herself fell under...