Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than long talks over coffee. But many of them worry about more elemental things: too little money and too much work. They point to other universities that pay their teaching fellows more than Harvard does, and they complain bitterly about the cost of living in Cambridge during an inflationary era. They often add that they are overworked, loaded down with sections, labs and tutees. They claim they have too little time either to work closely with their undergraduates or to prepare for their own generals and theses...
...Brooke never even voted. Then in 1950, several friends suggested that he run for the Massachusetts legislature. When he told Remigia that he planned to become a candidate, she cried for a week, as she now recalls?largely because her notion of politics was based on memories of Mussolini-era Italian politicians, who were often jailed or murdered. Brooke entered both the Republican and Democratic primaries, won the G.O.P. endorsement, and has stuck with the party ever since...
...diaries of the era, Morgenthau described the scene in Roosevelt's bedroom at daily meetings to set the bidding price for gold. The reclining President "would eat his soft-boiled eggs" while aides discussed the price the U.S. should pay. Once, when Morgenthau was gloomier than usual, Roosevelt decreed a 21? increase because "three times seven is a lucky number." Only later did Morgenthau realize that The Chief was joking. Thanks largely to Morgenthau's stewardship, the dollar by 1939 was the world's strongest currency...
...After five years of lurid reports about an "underground cinema," U.S. moviegoers have caught the show. For the first time, a large audience has tuned in on experimental film and is beginning to believe what a far-out few have been saying for years: the movies are entering an era of innovation that attempts to change the language of film and reeducate the human...
Munn was a member of the Faculty from 1932 until his retirement in 1957 and served for ten years as chairman of Harvard's English Department. An accomplished scholars, Munn was interested in the teaching of undergraduates. During the postwar era, his course, "The Bible as Literature," was among the most popular in the College...