Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haste slowly-very slowly-in putting its stamp on the federal bureaucracy. When the Viet Nam "11 o'clock group," composed of middle-level officials from several agencies who review important operational questions, convened at the State Department last week, all the faces were familiar from the Johnson era. Though hardly trifling, the vitriolic, five-month-old dispute with Peru over seizure of U.S. oil properties is just now receiving close attention. The new Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Charles Meyer, a former Sears, Roebuck vice president in charge of hemisphere operations, was selected only this...
...sense of missing community experience, but on the subways everyone looks at the ceiling. We delight in togetherness on occasions, but shy away from each other the rest of the time. Thus, the cities have not increased the sense of community that animated the frontier-town building era of America, but really undermined...
Since the medium itself is dated, the queer old-fashioned visions possessed by some of the lesser artists seem appropriate--the death of Desdemona or a gargoyle on Notre Dame. These images let the eye explore fantasies in ink that come from an era very distant from our own when art is haunted predominantly by Campbell's Soup...
...recent black sit-in over Planning 113-b has been decried as one of the greatest blows to academic freedom since the McCarthy era. Shortly after the incident, I happened to be visiting a large Southern city and found that news of the incident had preceeded me there...
...magazine under Gruening battled against the power monopolies and gunboat diplomacy in Latin America, and for Irish Independence and American recognition of the revolutionary regime in Mexico. Those years are still very much alive in Gruening's memory, and his descriptions of the Nation's crusades of that era come rapid and flowing...