Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mattey, now 69 and a senior vice president at Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, blames the suicides on the psychology of the era. "Then people seemed to be more affected by the loss of money than they are today. When people lose a lot of money now, they just plan on how they are going to make a winner somewhere down the road. The people who lost then appeared despondent. They didn't seem to be in a frame of mind in which they could possibly make a comeback...
...invited someone to your home for sex ... it only takes a few minutes to change the sheets"). But it also carries some closely reasoned political advice: a 3,700-word article by Columbia Law School Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg urging passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. To give the ERA cause a boost, Cosmo and 32 other women's magazines from Ms. to Playgirl, from Vogue to House & Garden agreed to run pieces about the amendment in their next month's issue...
...each magazine handled the story was left to individual editors. Predictably enough, no one comes out against the ERA. Presentations range from perfunctory (Playgirl devotes a mere 300 words in its editor's column) to intensely personal (writes Essence's editor in chief Marcia Ann Gillespie: "I did not stand up for my rights as a black person in America to be told that I have to sit down because I'm a woman"). Ladies' Home Journal has the most glamorous contributor in Senator Edward Kennedy. Also the most platitudinous: "[The ERA] will give meaning...
...Nazi attack. "I was thinking of other enemies of humanity [namely Stalin and his killers] when 1 composed the theme." His Fifth Symphony, which established Shostakovich's reputation in the Soviet Union, was meant to describe Stalin's Great Terror of 1936-37. In the post-Stalin era, his Thirteenth Symphony was intended as a protest against antiSemitism, and his Fourteenth was an evocation of the horrors of the Gulag...
...when radical thought held sway in New York City and many other parts of the country as well. As the editor of Commentary and a leader of centrist opinion, Podhoretz was a prime target of the Manhattan Jacobins. In a book recapturing the impassioned polemics of the era in sometimes powerful and sometimes sluggish prose, he tells how he survived the literary pummeling and went on to organize the counterrevolution...