Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration is reviving fears of the "yellow peril" by naming Peking as the real threat to U.S. interests. "We fought side by side with Asians at Bataan and Corregidor, in Korea and now in Viet Nam," said the President. "We have utterly repudiated the racist nonsense of an earlier era. Indeed, we have made a commitment in Asia because we do believe that no men, whatever the pigmentation of their skins, should ever be delivered over to totalitarianism, that freedom is not a prize reserved for white Europeans or Americans in our private enclaves of affluence...
Waiting Game. He told his mostly conservative listeners what they wanted to hear. "The Great Society," he said in Texas, "is not the wave of the future but the end of an era, a dismal rehash of the 1930s." Welfare is "a colossal and complete failure," he said in Des Moines, where he once was a sportscaster and a liberal Democrat. "Let's stop being our brother's keeper, and be his brother. Let him keep himself." On Viet Nam he repeated his hard line. "Attrition has been more costly than a quicker and more violent effort...
...pollution era, agonistic Teddy Roosevelt would no doubt have Australian-crawled to the wooded island in the Potomac that now bears his name. Less energetic visitors these days can get there by boat or pedestrian causeway. Last week, on T.R.'s 109th birthday, his kin and his successor nine times removed walked to the park like ordinary tourists, there to dedicate a memorial to the 26th President...
...notion of collective responsibility could not be accepted, said Glimp, becited the Faculty's "old-fashioned reaction against guilt-by-association" as a heritage of the McCarthy era. cause "we have to distinguish between acts on the one hand and speech on the other...
...million cultural center (now abuilding); and the Ford Foundation gave the Atlanta Symphony $1,750,000. Last week the symphony opened its new season under the baton of a new permanent conductor, Robert Shaw. It was an auspicious start to what will undoubtedly be a decisive era of growth for both the orchestra and the city...