Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student left, the rightists have taken to the streets to demonstrate. And can they pack a meeting! Feminists everywhere were in an uproar last summer when they found that their state caucuses for the International Women's Year were infiltrated and sometimes taken over by conservative militants deriding ERA and opposing abortion...
Nobel lived during the latter half of the 19th century, when industrialized Europe saw its steel industry sag because of overdevelopment and a lack of new markets. In search of new, lucrative fields, the steel and iron companies, the dominant industries in this era of unusually heavy industry, turned to armaments: large bore cannons, machine guns, steel-plated ships and a wide assortment of modernized rifles...
...exorbitant fees, greased palms and took advantage of contacts. Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy's grandson who engineerred a coup for the benefit of the present Shah of Iran, was merely following the example set 65 years ago by Sir Basil Zaharoff. The arms market flourished in this past era, when the industrialized nations traded amongst each other as well as exploiting the undeveloped countries. By "gingering up" a few Chilean generals or instigating a local war between Arab chieftains, Zaharoff claimed to have sold "more arms than anyone else in the world...
...abortion, and sarcastically attacked the recent Supreme Court ruling. Said she: "Every case the Supremes have heard of late has resulted in constitutional disaster." Among the resolutions approved by the caucus was one calling on feminist supporters to avoid tourism in the 15 states that have not yet passed ERA, and to boycott products made in those states. The meeting was remarkably free of divisiveness. One reason: the sobering sense that the beleaguered movement cannot afford petty squabbles. Fears for the future produced chin-up rhetoric. "I am not predicting failure," said Steinem. "I have great faith in women...
FOOLS PROVIDE the tabloids with copy, the wise with confidence, and the timid with smug self-satisfaction; often symbolizing an era to a degree aesthetes are unwilling to admit. Harry Crosby would have made a superlative court jester. If ever an artist appropriated the spirit of his era it was Crosby. This golden-haired nephew of J.P. Morgan spent a lifetime scrambling after insight and sensations others had long since experienced; obsessed with material possessions and the construction of elaborate mythologies. Yet his diaries ruthlessly expose foibles, and paint portraits in the starkest tones of a man and an era...