Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...era of huge, unwieldy government, when translating policy into reality is one of the most difficult problems of all, Nixon's mechanical approach may be more promising. Yet efficiency is a means, not an end, and can become meaningless in the absence of a creative policy-and worthy policymakers. Despite his image as a hardheaded selector of talented men, Nixon chose the mediocre Spiro Agnew as running mate to avoid antagonizing Southern Republicans, while Humphrey picked the better-qualified Edmund Muskie. "Agnew is not a racist," said Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, last week. Then, in an extraordinary burst...
...somehow make peace in Vietnam and survive the present era," he wrote, "we may discover that America's development toward further openness has been only temporarily halted...
...action with which I did not agree. That would have been like lying. If I had not done this, I would have had to consider myself responsible for the error of our government. Feeling as I do about those who kept silent in a former period [the Stalin era], I consider myself responsible...
...era dominated by luxury-loving Bourbon France, and its real mirror was its applied arts. Cabinetmakers produced carved and inlaid furniture, which they were entitled to sign, like artists. Porcelain factories turned out incense burners shaped like snails or elephants, tulip stands decorated with genre scenes. Yet, while artisans were elevated to the status of artists, painters often became as subservient as craftsmen. The vast majority of oils, watercolors and drawings made by Fragonard, Boucher, Watteau and Nattier to decorate boudoirs and gaming rooms were skillful but skin-deep pictures of pretty ladies, handsome gallants and idyllic landscapes...
...curvilinear grace, and mantelpieces and niches were filled with delicious Meissen and Chantilly imitations of Chinese styles. One of the most striking objects in the Wickes collection is the great black Chinese chest that London craftsmen lovingly set on legs of gilded wood. When the stateliness of the baroque era gave way to the studied insouciance of the court of Louis XV, chests took on a kind of portly gentility, as witness the gilt-trimmed rococo commode in Wickes' salon...