Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...term derives from the pre-World War II jitterbug adjective "hep": to be "with it"; hep became "hip" (in noun form, "hipster") during the bebop and beatnik era of the 1950s, then fell into disuse, to be revived with the onslaught of psychedelia. *A 14th century English troubadourian vision, the Land of Cockaigne was inhabited by precooked "larks well-trained and very couth who cometh down to man his mouth." The larks were eaten by hooded monks, who prayed through psychedelic church windows that "turn themselves to crystal bright." A new U.S. postage stamp of Thoreau, designed by Painter Leonard...
...with jars of candy and patent nostrums. A faint smell of peppermint is always in the air, and outside the door hangs a hand-painted sign: "Gone fishing be back Monday mebbe." The schoolhouse combines a dunce cap made from an 1868 newspaper with wall drawings made by Lincoln-era schoolchildren and period mottoes written on the blackboard: "People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages" and "Nothing is work unless you would rather be doing something else...
...single U.S. factory, and its position as a mass union had been taken over by the C.I.O. Even so, the C.I.O. long depended on many techniques originated by the Wobblies, ranging from the sitdown strike to integrated locals to a lively interest in civil rights. In the era of the twelve-hour day and child labor in mines and mills, the I.W.W. was one of labor's more effective weapons. The Wobblies engendered real fear and antagonism in many quarters, and perhaps intensified antilabor prejudice. But over the long run, the Wobblies undoubtedly helped to open the nation...
...experience into a memoir that says farewell to the innocence-his own and the country's-that was shattered by World War I. The same experiences help his rather stilted early stories, GALAHAD and I THOUGHT OF DAISY, now reissued, to hold up as searching documentaries of an era...
Rise to Power: Gifted with phenomenal memory and an analytical intelligence that might have taken him to the top of any capitalist corporation, Kosygin advanced swiftly as an efficient, inventive technocrat of the Stalinist era. He became overall boss of the textile industry in 1939, during the war served as deputy chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of People's Commissars. He soon caught Stalin's eye, and in 1948 became the youngest (43) member of the Politburo...