Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equal Treatment. Mixed unions are hardly strange to Americans, going back to John Rolfe's marriage to Pocahontas in 1614. In the same era, colonial elders became so concerned about the number of marriages between white indentured women and Negroes that they began writing laws to prohibit them. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, son of a Negro mother and white father, who became the nation's Minister to Haiti in 1889, divorced a Negro and later married a white woman, explaining blithely that he "wanted to be fair to both races." Negro-white miscegenation, in fact, had a brief vogue...
...others, who make occasional use of the building and include a variety of interesting upper middleclass students, usually consider the final club worthwhile despite the dues. The simple truth is, however, that the clubs belong to a different Harvard era, and they are barely changing at a time when the College's student body has changed significantly in just a few years. The clubs must either open up their membership more, or else withdraw further than they are at the present...
...moods of their time. Gilbert and Sullivan's frolics limned the pomposities of the Victorian British Empah; Cole Porter's urbanities were wonderful tonics for the hung-over '30s; Rodgers and Hammerstein's ballads reflected the sentient and seriousness of the World War II era. Today the Beatles' cunning collages piece together scraps of tension between the generations, the loneliness of the dislocated '60s, and the bitter sweets of young love in any age. At the same time, their sensitivity to the absurd is sharper than ever...
Only Coincidence. In the easygoing Bahamas, where for 350 years men have reaped fortunes from piracy, intentional shipwrecking, Civil-War blockade breaking and Prohibition-era rumrunning, the payments were not likely to be considered a crime or much of an offense against hardened public sensibilities. Still, Sir Stafford was embarrassed...
Unfortunately, like his targets, Bunuel has aged poorly. His images no longer shock, his attacks, in the era of black humor, seem peculiarly tame and tepid. Manifestly, he intended Angel to fly on several levels. It could be a metaphor of proliferating fascism, as in Camus' The Plague. Or it could be a restatement of the theme of No Exit, Sartre's trapped-in-a-room drama: hell is other people...