Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This recent action on behalf of HUAC is reminiscent of the McCarthy era," Lockshin said, and there is no guarantee that the Pool amendment could not be applied to the most modest protesters of U.S. policy...
While top professors at the University of California make more than $3,000 for staying behind to teach summer classes, the average college-faculty member can earn only about $1,300. This is hardly an inducement in an era when a professor can make $70 a day while on a Government-sponsored junket and as much as $150 when a foundation is backing him. The result is that while faculty members once fought over the summer jobs, now there are usually more openings than candidates...
...Accademia degli Arcadi in imitation of classical antiquity, and stocked it with a museum of oils, many of which she had brought as baggage. Her Palazzo Riario near the Vatican became a "stopping place for every prominent and noble art lover of the age. While they proclaimed the era "il seicento de Cristina" she peeked and listened through a window concealed in the ceiling of her painting gallery. And when she died at the age of 61, Pope Innocent XI broke precedent by having her buried in a Vatican vault. As her death mask, disinterred last year, revealed, she remained...
...think we are on the threshold of a whole new era in theology," says James McCord, Presbyterian president of Princeton Theological Seminary. He believes that the God-the-Father theology of the centuries after the Reformation, and the more recent God-the-Son theology of Karl Barth, Rudolph Bultmann and Paul Tillich are giving way in stress to the third person of the Trinity. The new emphasis, McCord suggests, will be on the Holy Spirit-"the God of the present...
...dozens of first-rate musicians; Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker used the band as a laboratory for the newly emerging bebop. In 1940, stepping high in snakeskin shoes, a diamond tiepin and purple tie, Hines hit the road-just in time to witness the demise of the big-band era. The years thereafter were largely one continuous round of playing with various combos. He dyed his greying temples 'black, staged lavish press parties to promote the "New Fatha Hines." Nothing worked, and eventually he resorted to playing Dixieland in San Francisco clubs-endlessly searching for "something that people wanted...