Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excuse to take power. Such reports may be groundless, but they reflect the concern in South America that democratic governments, whatever their shortcomings, are more threatened today by their protectors than by their enemies, as they attempt to wrestle with their social and economic problems in an era of turbulence and change...
...easily be argued that the history of music since the 18th century has consisted of a series of variations on Bach. Without knowing it, he divided music history into two basic periods: pre-Bach and post-Bach. The difference between the two is that in the post-Bach era, he is a perpetual presence...
Bach himself never dreamed of such a thing. Rarely has an artist ever worked with less thought of teaching posterity. He considered himself not an artist, but an artisan, no more elevated in stature than a cabinetmaker with his tools and wood. This was before the Romantic era introduced a more heroic, self-indulgent conception of the artist; still, even some of Bach's contemporaries were afflicted with careerism and flashes of temperament. Bach, throughout his life, merely tried to do an honest job. "I was obliged to be industrious," he said. "Whoever is equally industrious will succeed just...
...Volumes. Their fathers then settled down for serious briefings with their opposites in the Johnson Administration. Many of Nixon's appointees to the White House staff met their Johnson-era counterparts and chatted informally in the West Wing basement mess. At the State Department, the Cabinet-to-be and their wives met their own vis-avis socially. Then many of the Nixon nominees went to the incumbents' offices for lengthy discussion of their new responsibilities. They came away with fat briefing volumes prepared for them with part of the $900,000 that Congress authorized this year...
Cabaret--This musical about the degeneration of German society just before the Nazi era has lost Joel Grey and much of its luster during the long run. But Lotte Lenya is back in the cast, and there's no justification for missing her no matter what she's doing. At the BROADWAY, Broadway at 53rd...