Word: eras
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That U.S. life has changed dramatically for the better in the past half-century is a commonplace. But some of the statistics that emerge when 1917 is compared with 1967 present a startling contrast. In the period before World War I, the garment industry was emerging from the era of the seven-day week and the $5 weekly paycheck. Today, Muzak competes with the whir of machines, and the average worker gets $2.60 an hour for a 35-hour week. The improvement is reflected throughout industry. Before World War I, the average American factory worker earned the equivalent in today...
Abraham's Choice. The novel is a stark tale that shows how the ghosts of the Hitler era still haunt the Promised Land. In a Polish concentration camp, Nazi guards tell Haim Kalinsky that since his two sons are so "nice," they will kill only one of them-thus forcing on him a sadistic perversion of Abraham's choice. Kalinsky selects his favorite, eleven-year-old Shmuel, to be spared, while six-year-old Daniel is led away to be slaughtered...
...same token, most of them have defended professors who advocate politically unpopular causes. The McCarthy era aside, one only has to look back to 1965 to remember the outcry that arose when Republican politicians called for the resignation of a Rutgers University professor who complimented the Vietcong in from of his students...
Thus the San Francisco Opera last week gave Gunther Schuller's first op era. The Visitation, the kind of production it has always needed and never had. The Hamburg State Opera, which commissioned the work, performed it successfully last year (TIME, Oct. 21, 1966). Yet when the Hamburgers brought their production to New York City last summer, American audiences booed nearly as much as they applauded. Partly they were disappointed by its literal realism, which seemed at odds with Schuller's Kafka-inspired libretto and feverishly atonal score...
Name Sleeper. The most notorious demimondaine of the era was a statuesque Spanish gypsy who is reputed to have amassed $15 million during an active career that spanned five decades. Her name was Augustina Otero, and her origins were humble to the point of bleakness. She was born in 1868, the second of seven bastards of a village prostitute. At the age of eleven, she was raped and rendered infertile for life. At twelve, she left home and wandered through Spain and Southern France, sharing bed for board before becoming a cabaret dancer. It was not long before she discovered...