Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was, all in all, a shortening of time horizons, a demand that things be made more worthwhile in the present. Somehow people had been saving since the pioneer days and the era of industrialization, with the assurance that the returns on all this investment would produce happiness and satisfaction. But the activists of the sixties, who had been born with the returns already in hand, found satisfaction neither in the increasing abundance of consumer goods, nor in the saving which made it possible...
...changing the university itself, ending the era of the "gentleman's college" and initiating new ideals of public and social service into students. The Class of '17 was perhaps the first to feel the effects of this change; they certainly felt it more dramatically than any other...
...described Fuller's mind as an "intellectual carnival." Fuller's own account of his life is less pedantic; "Born crosseyed. Abnormally farsighted. Corrected at four. Until then saw only large patterrns. Emphasis persisted after correction. Started young documenting against world developments, formalized as Chronofile 1917. Chronofile disclosed Newton's era world at rest supersded by Einstein's world constant change..." His four-thousand-word life history, written for the fiftieth reunion report, concluded, "Good luck for me I was born crosseyed...
...promenade concert of orchestral chestnuts (Suppé's Poet and Peasant Overture, Strauss's Blue Danube). All over town last week-from century-old French costumes and sketches at the public library to art nouveau table settings at Halls department store-the style was redolent of the era of the potted palm...
...festival of 19th century music presented by Kansas City's venturesome, three-year-old Performing Arts Foundation. Producer Lawrence Kelly, borrowed for the occasion from the Dallas Opera, billed his "Nineteenth Century Affair" as an attempt to capture the "gaiety and spirit of the romantic era." Nowhere did it succeed more effervescently than in the centerpiece of the week-long festival: a polished, witty production of Jacques Offenbach's 1858 operetta, Orpheus in the Underworld...