Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet political climate inevitably began to change-and Ehrenburg was the first to dramatize the fact. His novel, The Thaw, gave its name to the new era. It frankly dealt with Stalin's purges and other heretofore taboo subjects, and helped open the way for the Evtushenkos and the Dudintsevs (Not By Bread Alone) to follow...
...little too outspoken and said so; but Ehrenburg, now a secure senior citizen of the Soviet literary establishment, with a five-room luxury apartment in Moscow filled with modern French art, paid no heed. Ehrenburg always insisted he had not bought his immunity under Stalin. "I lived in an era when the fate of man resembled not so much a chess game as a lottery," he said. Last week, at the age of 76, the last lottery brought down the professional survivor: he died of a heart attack in Moscow...
Warm and Crackling. Both men painted in the "Mad '40s," an era that was ushered in with the cry of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" and went out with the California gold rush. Americans gambled their fortunes on cockfights, sang themselves hoarse at prayer meetings, got roaring drunk on grog. They were titillated by Tyler's dalliance with a society beauty, captivated by Morse's telegraph, endlessly amused by politics. Mount and Woodville's art chronicled the times with a warm blend of sentimentality and good humor...
Long Day's Journey. But this was only the beginning. Surrounding these events was a vast array of lesser-known Verdi-era artifacts that placed the standard fare in fascinating musical and historical perspective. Early risers attended taped Italian radio performances of such out-of-the-way operas from Verdi's journeyman days as Attila, The Corsair and Joan of Arc, in which the Maid dies not at the stake but on the battlefield. Later in the day, in one or another of the marble-and-crystal salons in Newport's stately mansions, the offerings included chamber...
...American Library, which published New World Writing in that era, has revived the paperback-book magazine as a triannual bloom. If the first issue of New American Review is any indication, it is well worth another run for the money...