Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comparing the second-rate Redgraves with the American Barrymores leaves a poor taste in my theatrical mouth. Might as well eulogize the Cherry Sisters, who certainly epitomized a theatrical era...
...Author! Author!" [March 17], on dissenting writers in Communist countries, is an illuminating report on a significant development in the political and cultural climate of the post-Stalin era. Besides this cultural protest, there exists also an ecclesiastical dissent, particularly evident in the Russian Orthodox Church and among the Baptists in the Soviet Union...
Whatever the chances of alliance, the Communists emerged from the elections stronger than at any time since De Gaulle came to power. They have, as the French say, been "dedouane"-released from customs. Also, for the first time in the Gaullist era, they are expected to drop their role of sullen isolation in the Assembly, take part in its organization and committees. If they do so, they will, like the other major parties, elect a vice president of the Assembly, who will take his turn at presiding. Communist Deputies will likely be among French parliamentary delegations to the Council...
...large is Luther that every age has been able to find in him a religious hero to its own liking. To the Enlightenment he was above all an individualist and rationalist who sneered at superstition and fought totalitarianism. The Romantic era saw Luther as a German nationalist, the rebel against Roman imperialism. Turn-of-the-century Christian liberals pictured him as a primitive reductionist who tried to return the church to its apostolic simplicity. Since Luther's f ears,, foibles and physical ailments are amply documented-notably in his own writings, which fill some 100 volumes in the authoritative...
...facilitating Stoddard's rise to political prominence and the progressive modernization of the West, Doniphon destroys himself. Hallie, once Tom's girl, has fallen in love with Stoddard, and in sparing him, Doniphon loses her. He is left without the girl he loves at the dawn of a new era that has no need for his kind of individuality...