Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thanks in large part to his own efforts, Marshall will come to the Supreme Court at a time when the federal judiciary's great era of major civil rights decisions may be near its end. The fundamental lines of equality have already been drawn, and Marshall will likely be writing opinions on civil rights cases whose guidelines he saw established when he was arguing before the courts as counsel for the N.A.A.C.P...
...during its era of "sophisticated muckraking," Curtis Publishing's Saturday Evening Post reported that Butts had revealed strategy secrets to Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant, whose Crimson Tide thereupon rolled over Georgia in their 1962 football game, 35-0. Butts sued the Post and won a judgment of $3,060,000, later reduced to $460,000 by the trial judge...
...could have been a scene from the late '30s, when Goodman's cheerfully crisp, driving style made him the King of Swing and started a new era in American music. Actually, it was Goodman's opening night last week at Manhattan's Rainbow Grill, high in the 70-story RCA Building. Typical of his sentimental sojourns into jazz in recent years, it created a momentary illusion that nothing much had changed. The dancers were mostly of the generation that grew up with him back when cats were hep instead of hip. The tunes were such period...
...that surrounded the cult of the brush stroke by the abstract expressionists. "The original brush stroke was a romantic outpouring," explains Lichtenstein. "Here I'm making a simulated brush stroke, but I've removed the idea of something full of passion." He believes that painting in an era of mass media should be impersonal. To heighten this effect, he has even had some of his works executed in porcelain enamel baked on steel panels, turned out these works in editions of six to eight...
...appeared to me too narrowly limited by its governing principles and prejudices." A Prelude is thus not only the scrapbook of a growing writer but also an American echo of Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That-the classic farewell to innocence and youth in the comfortable era before...