Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Mason Welch Gross, 66, former president of Rutgers University (1959-71); after a long illness; in Red Bank, N.J. A critic of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, Gross maintained a quiet campus during the '60s era of protests...
Washington is of course used to spectacle, but the era of Rostropovich has no precedent, nor has it ever promised so much. For years the capital's music-lovers have felt ignored. The great performers of the world passed through for one-nighters somewhere en route between New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and even downtown Cleveland. But with the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971, enterprising managers began to book extended dates for the artists, and today Washington has become one of the obligatory stops for any major musician or musical group that goes on the road...
...play is set in Nigeria at an indefinite time--there are references to modern nuisances such as television, yet the characters suggest a more traditional era. Brother Jero is the rough equivalent of an American storefront preacher, a "beachfront divine." His world is one of tongue-in-cheek contrasts, for like all slightly bogus religious leaders, he sees through the pretensions of his livelihood and of his enraptured flock...
...morality" of the Carter administration dismisses the horrors of Vietnam and Chile as characteristic of a bygone era. The U.S. is in the process of re-thinking and re-aligning itself to protect what remains of its global power. Admiral T.H. Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed this shift in testimony before the U.S. Senate...
This resurgence of militarism and the proliferation of nuclear technology harms us all, for there is no real division between foreign and domestic policy. In an era of "the closing circle," of limited resources and increasing competition for those resources, resources used for weapons are unavailable for human needs. It is a question of priorities. One United Nations statistic should suffice: between July 1974 and June 1975, ten million people on this planet starved to death. At the same time, the world governments collectively spent more than $300 billion on armaments. The U.S. and the Soviet Union alone accounted...