Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...false sense of neutrality were ever possible, it is no longer so in an era of intense community and neighborhood self-awareness. Through elected and self-appointed leaders, by petition and by protest, singly and collectively, the citizens of our urban environment expect the university to act as a responsible and enlightened landlord, employer and neighbor. Little more than a legitimate concern for its own self-interest will lead the university to reflect seriously and act positively on the obligations of its urban citizenship...
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) has transformed Arlo Guthrie's rambling, hilarious talking-blues record of a couple of seasons back into a melancholy epitaph for an entire era. With its combination of wild humor and lingering sadness, Restaurant is one of the most perceptive films about young people ever made in this country...
...never been an easy journalistic assignment. Even the name is an alias. It translates as "he who enlightens," yet few Western news men have seen him, much less sat down for an interview. Nevertheless, for this week's cover story on the death of Ho and the new era that begins in North Viet Nam, our Hanoi watchers around the world were able to piece together a detailed picture of the complex Communist leader and Vietnamese nationalist...
...Paris summer of 1794, the fall of Robespierre signaled the end of the Reign of Terror and opened a fresh era of calm and consolidation. It was the year II in the new French revolutionary calendar, and the month was named Thermidor. In his classic analysis, The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Harvard historian Crane Brinton called Thermidor "a convalescence from the fever of revolution...
From the moment the campaign be gan in May, it was clear that only two of the original 15 registered parties had a chance. One was the Progress Party headed by Busia, 55, a sociology professor who spent much of the Nkrumah era in voluntary exile. The other was the National Alliance of Liberals (N.A.L.), led by Komla A. Gbedemah, 56, who was Nkrumah's Finance Minister until the Redeemer turned against him and forced him into exile in 1961. Sophisticated poll watchers expected a close battle. Not the local soothsayers; Busia's first name, after all, means...