Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measurement of success in box scores was not enough. If the New Politics has any validity, it is that the politician needs continuing mass support, in election year and out. Johnson had earned his reputation and learned his trade in closet politics, in the one-party Texas of another era and the cloister of Capitol Hill. He had scant preparation for the larger, less orderly world of national politics...
...consequence was to Walt Disney, who bought nine audio oscillators to help create the sound effect for Fantasia. With Hewlett as the original engineering brains and Packard as a fiercely dynamic manager, the company has become the world's largest maker of electronic measuring devices. In the postwar era of computers, television and solid-state circuitry, its sales have grown to $269 million annually. It is a rare U.S. TV repair shop that does not use Hewlett-Packard equipment to detect picture-tube defects...
...group's "bread and butter," as Alexander Schneider put it, was the complete cycle of Beethoven's 16 quartets and the Grosse Fuge, which it performed almost every year. It also recorded the cycle three times-once in the 78-r.p.m. era, a second time in the early days of LP and a third for stereo. Haydn, Schubert and Brahms were staples as well, and moderns like Bartok, Milhaud and Hindemith were regularly included. To everything they played, the foursome brought a Toscanini-like elegance of outline within which the music pulsed with expressive passion. Says Violist Walter...
...years, the industry joke goes, National Educational Television has been little more than a pony-express system, delivering its programs by stages. Beginning next week, NET will leave the horseback era and become almost a network, broadcasting programs simultaneously across the nation for two hours, five nights a week...
...Charlock and his struggles with the vast Merlin corporation. Isaac Bashevis Singer transplants the children from The Manor in Poland to The Estate in America. Elsewhere in Europe, Sarah Gainham conducts what is left of her cast of Viennese characters from Night Falls on the City into the postwar era. C. P. Snow has achieved a double sequel of sorts: the tenth novel in his Strangers and Brothers series seems to be an offshoot of On Iniquity, his wife Pamela Hansford Johnson's recent moralistic account of the Manchester Moors murders. In Sir Charles' version of perversion...