Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...various forms, that prayer reappears throughout all of Toynbee's writings. In an era when most historians, of what Toynbee himself has called the just-one-damn-thing-after-another school, saw religion either as a block to progress or else considered it beside the point, Toynbee gave history not only a pattern but a spiritual end. He reached the conclusion that man's real history is religieus history and that civilizations are really nothing but steppingstones in man's progress to deeper spiritual insight. Yet Toynbee, an Anglican in childhood, always showed himself so ready...
...fellow Americans," concluded the President, "the kind of era I have described is possible." The great auditorium in San Francisco was hushed, and from that hush had come a voice that Americans of all faiths and factions could hear and understand, as rarely before, in the tumult and shouting of U.S. election years...
...chairmanship of Republic's board goes Girdlers protégé, straight-talking Charles M. White, 65, president of Republic since 1945. The new president is genial Thomas F. Patton, 53, who reflects an era far removed from the fighting, roaring times of Tom Girdler. Patton is the first Republic president who did not come up through production, instead, started as Republic's general counsel in 1936, more recently helped negotiate steel's most peaceful strike. With Girdler gone, Chairman White will set Republic policy, Patton will execute...
...Era of Independents. Short, round-faced ex-dancer (with Martha Graham), ex-Hollywood Agent Harold Adolph Hecht, 49, who runs the business end of the partnership and shares authority with Lancaster, is convinced that this is the era of independent producers. Small production outfits are multiplying, and such major studio chiefs as Darryl Zanuck and Jerry Wald have recently quit their jobs to form independent companies...
...West manages to persuade itself every few years that the Communists are changing, that internal troubles, outside pressure or a deliberate switch of policy are causing a new Communist era. Once again the air is full of such talk. The idea is that most of the evils in Soviet Russia were caused by one man, and this line is fostered by a lot of people, from statesmen (who call on the present rulers of Russia to turn their backs on the wrongs of Stalinism) down to movie producers (who are dreaming up movies about Joe's crimes...