Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent in a nerve-shattering series of quick dissolves from the lawyer to the tax man to the agent to the press, and no matter what he looks like on the screen, his very best scenes had better be played at the bank. "The matinee idol of the Eisenhower era," cracked a Hollywood reporter, "is a man in a grey flannel suit...
...Bemis biography tells not only of Adams, but of a crucial era in the young republic's history-and of the other great leaders whom U.S. artists captured on their canvases (see color pages). On balance, John Quincy Adams held his own among them, although he did not make his greatest contributions in the White House. With the West and South both against him, a hostile Congress kept him pinned down. But Adams could no more keep out of political controversy than his father before him. In 1831 he was elected to the House of Representatives, the only...
...straight forward. He worked without reference to other arts and aloof from the aesthetic controversy that was still raging in America as to whether or not photography was an art. Relying simply on his feeling for subject and composition, he produced sensitive portraits of a city and an era. Atget used no camera tricks; there is no special cropping or double exposures or any of the hundred other devices that some photographers have since used to make photography merit the name of art. The art in Atget was his ability to see and this quality still distinguishes the greatest photographers...
Then Connie moved up right behind the batter. That close, he could not resist the temptation to tip bats and trip batters. A good catcher but not a great one, he was tricky and tough enough to move up through the bush leagues into the big time. In that era of fierce competition and low salaries (he got $200 a month in 1886), Connie jumped from the solidly entrenched National League to the short-lived Brotherhood, then to the Pittsburgh Nationals, where he played until 1893, when a broken ankle sent him on to an unparalleled career as manager...
...late. Above all, there is the real problem of how to convince the world that America stands for freedom. But it is frightening to think of this mission in the hands of men like Author Shaplen's hero. For Adam Patch is just a fugitive from the WPA era transplanted to Indo-China; any halfway smart Communist agent could sell him the Hanoi bridge...