Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within a matter of hours after Detroit lost that final game, it became inconceivable that it could ever have been otherwise. The following article is reprinted, purely out of historical interest, from an era when it could very easily have been otherwise, namely August 1, 1967. It appeared then in the Harvard Summer News. Here is how the Red Sox looked to an impartial observer barely two months...
...week the newspapers had gushed of "the gonfalon" and "a new era" but when one joined the fans moving across the Brookline Avenue bridge to the park it was clear that they at least had not changed. Sausage-necked goons stiff-walked in time to their own larded drummers. Little boys in loose t-shirts whom I remembered as urchins had been transformed into juvenile delinquents by Nancy Sinatra and television commercials. Teenagers whom I remembered as juvenile delinquents had been transformed into flabby facists by the Record American and television commercials. And students from intown colleges, fat thighs wrapped...
Twenty-one years ago Griswold became Dean at a critical point in the School's history. It was immediately after the war, and the School faced great challenges and great changes. The law at Harvard required a leader to guide it into the new era and to maintain the tradition of greatness in teaching and thinking which had made Harvard Law School the preeminent legal academy in the English speaking world. Dean James Landis had resigned in confusing and unhappy circumstances. The lawyers at Harvard required a friend to help them in healing painful wounds...
...this era, the expansion of Communism is a far more complicated affair than it was in the late 1940s. To take the two most notable examples of late, both Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro gained their power as effective opponents of oppressive, reactionary regimes before they set up popular Communist dictatorships. There is little doubt, of course, that they are far less resented by their subjects than were French General Henri Navarre and Fulgencio Batista...
...death that "there is no boundary between a good world and an evil world: they run together and very normal people can spread terror." Otherwise, Young Torless, adapted from the novel by Robert Musil, is a perfect-and perfectly chilling-evocation of the underside of a vanished era...