Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked up from his desk a copy of a Law Day speech delivered by oldtime New Dealer Thurman Arnold, 75, at Indiana's Valparaiso University Law School. A lawyer who helped Owen Lattimore and a number of low-level Government employees who came under attack during the McCarthy era, Arnold has impeccable credentials as a defender of dissent. Yet his speech was a blistering denunciation of "alienated intellectuals" who take the position that "dissent deserves special consideration, immunity from criticism and the right to shout down persons who disagree with them." Arnold recalled that Columnist Walter Lippmann, who thinks...
Findley tied the question of Chinese recognition into the Republican Party's "new era of positivism." He said he could think of no more important problem demanding the party's attention than that of China...
...respected him, and when he was gone I have lost maybe a lot of faith." She lost a lot more as well: after Stalin's death in 1953 and his denunciation before the 20th Party Congress of 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev, Svetlana became an extension of the Stalin era and thus a liability to the Soviet leadership. "I had perhaps something what can be named as a privileged life," she said wryly. "But, as you know, people cannot live only by bread...
...corner justice dispensed by a nightstick is far more effective than existing means. After all, more often than not, the police officer grew up in an atmosphere where police night-sticks and gun butts were more powerful than courts. From personal experience he knows its effectiveness. But in the era of social awareness and middle class guilt, the policeman is harshly criticized for holding views that years ago were accepted as right or, at least, effective...
...book, he sets out to tell the tale of a cuckoo American millionaire's efforts to steal an 18th century paperweight from an English manor house. What he also does in his incomparable way is to prove that, for a fellow who started effervescing back in the Edwardian era, he has a lot of bubble left in him yet. In fact, his fans will find that this book leaves P.G. about where he was before: one of the funniest writers of this and bygone times...