Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truism: patriotism has become more individualistic as U.S. society has grown more complex. The U.S. people, in their modern, more urban way of life, are better educated, more aware of the world and more sophisticated than their forebears. For the past decade, the young have grown up in an era of selfcriticism, and have learned to question American assumptions. They have also learned an idealism that often lacks realism-no tably an awareness that power and politics are inescapable facts of international life. Their definition of patriotism must be worked out in the context of a war that has none...
...fled the rising Third Reich and who has been teaching at Cornell University since 1935, Bethe (pronounced Baytuh) theorized that the inordinate energy emitted by stars results from two protracted nuclear processes during which hydrogen fuses into helium. Similar research placed Bethe in the front rank of atomic-era scientists such as Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer who gave birth to the Abomb...
...pride of the men who won the Civil War. Across the way, the State Education Building, not very good turn-of-the-century beaux art, more French poodle corinthian thany anything else, but trying. Behind it the Alfred E. Smith Office Building, an honest skyscraper of the Empire State era, and a good one. And mercifully, far away, the utterly sterile and deadly departmental buildings...
...common purpose that seem to be draining out of it, the quality of public design has got to be made a public issue because it is a politcal fact. The retreat from magnificence, to use a phrase of Evelyn Waugh's, has gone on long enough: too long. An era of great public works is as much needed in America as any other single element in our public life. Magnificence does not mean monumental. That seems to be a point to be stressed. I have heard Saul Steinberg quoted as saying that the government buildings of Washington seem designed...
Even the bizarre designs left behind by Rouen's Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825), who lived and died in poverty, obscurity and probable madness, have now been built in an era when modern steel and prestressed concrete make possible feats of construction that could only have been dreamed of in the 18th century. Lequeu's surrealistic designs for barns shaped like cows, and palaces with columns in the forms of deer and bears have been echoed not only in the fantastic churches designed by architects like Spain's Antoni Gaudi, but also in the animal-and coffeepot...