Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CABARET. The prevailing mood winds in the Berlin of 1930 were blowing toward Nazism and war-not exactly the bubbly stuff of which a heady musical is made. In its re-creation of the vulgarity of the era, this musical is a success of style. But its book is vacuum-packed...
CABARET. The prevailing mood winds in the Berlin of 1930 were blowing toward Nazism and war-not exactly the bubbly stuff of which a heady musical is made. In its re-creation of the vulgarity of the era, this musical is a success of style. But its book, based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, is an intrusion...
...Korean War, when the Man of the Year was neither a general nor a statesman but the American Fighting Man. It was so in 1956, when our choice was the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, who briefly and tragically rose against Soviet power, inaugurating (as we now know) a new era in Europe...
...source of world news the city is drying up. "I'm not leaving because of Lyndon Johnson," he says. "Of course I don't like the White House. I think its influence is bad. But that might be a reason for staying. I stayed through the McCarthy era, and that was worse. We decided on this before Johnson went off the deep...
Politics y. Art. Nicolson actually tells little that is new about the historic events. What he does provide is an eyewitness record of the era, as well as the passing of a time when everybody of consequence in England knew everybody else-and an unbelievably clubbable lot they were. Nicolson casually notes, for example, that he popped in on Anthony Eden at the time of the Sudetenland crisis and found Eden in despair but still unable to make up his mind about what he would do. Nicolson was horrified at Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, and he gives...