Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lists of student anti-war groups. The ACLU rightly condemned HUAC's subpoenaing of membership lists from the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley last August as "one of the most serious breaches of academic freedom of students in recent decades, not excluding the McCarthy era...
...other Negroes, both Reconstruction-era Republicans from Mississippi, were elected by the state legislature. Last to serve was Blanche Kelso Bruce, whose term ended...
...era when painting mostly runs to stale geometries, pop playthings and optical gimmickry, an artist who tackles the image of man with originality is a rare figure. Such a man is Britain's Francis Bacon, but it is unlikely that his portraits will ever hang in any corporation board room. His paintings attack conventional concepts of beauty, plow the flesh and reap a contorted yet keen vision of mortality...
...Era Preserved. It would be oversimplifying to see Dos Passos as one who has taken two paces to the left and three to the right. There is a core of consistency in his work that reconciles the "left" tone of U.S.A. with the "rightist" color of District of Columbia. Big Business was the enemy in U.S.A. In District, the focus of power shifted: the first novel in that trilogy dealt with the power of Communism to corrupt innocent idealism; the second was a primer on political demagoguery; the third a parable directed against the emotional debaucheries of the New Deal...
...enormous noise of silence has followed the ideological clamor of the '30s. But Dos Passos can now be regarded as an essential historian of an era-not a great novelist but a greater taker of notes playing the unwelcome role of a man who repeats things that others have said and would rather forget. It may seem old hat today, but it is a hat that many Americans have worn. Dos Passos may well claim to have been consistent in the oldfashioned, cranky Yankee way of distrusting all ideologies, of resisting all managerial systems that claim to improve...