Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lavish show to signify the end of a lavish era, and
the maharaja made it clear throughout that there would not be another
like it. In the future, the expenditure of rupees in Mysore will be
carefully watched. The maharaja has decreed a tax of 16
Critics of the blue laws argue that they ignore a profound shift in U.S. living and shopping habits. In an era of full employment, many husbands and wives both hold jobs, find it impractical to shop on weekdays. Moreover, merchants who try to solve .the problem by keeping late weekday hours report that most customers prefer to shop (and invariably spend more) on Sunday, when they can take their time and bring the family. With the exodus to the suburbs and the growth of one-stop shopping centers (TIME, Oct. 15) in outlying areas, families have become accustomed to shopping...
...damaging criticism that we are forced to level against President Eisenhower is that he has failed to utilize his great prestige and his commanding respect to grapple with the urgent problems of the day: in short, to move forward and to lead forward. Simply put, this is not an era of peace and prosperity, and to the extent that the President has acceded to the popular wish to forget about school shortages, racial tensions, juvenile delinquency, mental disease, communism in South America, poverty in Asia, nationalism in Africa, neutralism in Europe--to the extent that the country has tried...
...more blatant contrast could hardly be conceived than that between German art between 1905-1935 and the later period from 1935-1955. There are examples of the photographic realism that was the order of the day during the Nazi regime so that this era appears as a large blank. But its dryness in the way of artistic ideas is shown by what came after. Contemporary German art seems to be well behind literature in recovering from the war. There is almost no evidence of the originality that influenced the whole of western art in the early part of the century...
...face of a reigning opinion among pundits. Apart from the strictly personal popularity of President Eisenhower, he reported, the Republican Party is gaining long-range strength in a "significant reshuffling of party loyalties." In many cases, he found, the economic hostilities of the Depression and the New Deal era, which made the Democrats the "normal majority" party, have been blurred over by prosperity. Moreover, he reported, the "spectacular expansion" of the middle class has given more voters a conscious stake in what they call "the party that's good for business...