Word: eras
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...much a compromise ?neither a triumph nor a defeat for either side. Not only does it settle a nagging quarrel with Panama, it also removes a major irritant in U.S. relations with Latin America, which regards American control of the canal as a humiliating relic of the colonial era. It also assured continued U.S. control over a long transitional period; there is to be no radical, overnight shift of authority. Said Escobar: "Getting control of the Canal Zone and the canal is one of Panama's oldest national desires. To generation after generation of Panamanians, the canal has symbolized...
...reasons for the intense commitment of many Americans to the canal may be more implied than stated. It remains a point of pride in a period of national disillusionment and setbacks. It also recalls a bygone era when a more confident U.S. could act with a free hand in Latin America. Says David McCullough, author of The Path Between the Seas, a history of the canal: "It is the physical expression of a boundless confidence, one which believed tomorrow will be better. If an archaeologist were to come across only the locks and the cuts in that jungle, his conclusion...
This is an era of sophisticated canned goods. Old-fashioned lemonade arrives canned. Presidential memoirs come canned. American sport is canned and packaged, produced and directed until naturalism and spontaneity are fled. Sport appears in the living room marketed as fun and games. More deeply, big-time sport is profit and loss. It is a lode for the television industry...
...reads political events in the lives of individuals, casting his book into a nebulous category somewhere between literature, biography and history. Mee opens the book squarely in the middle of the "post-Watergate era" in the spring of 1975, by describing an encounter with a character clearly fitted to what doomsayers are fond of calling "post-Watergate morality." Mee's acquaintance Richard, who "looks like a million dollars before taxes," is a successful and influential man--a status the reader inevitably must link to the fact that he "moves in the worlds of politics and finance, of embezzlement, larceny...
Nixon was certainly a worthy target on which to vent such feelings, and while it is highly unusual to write history in terms of personal rage, Mee somehow seems to capture an underlying anger that conventional histories of the Watergate era miss. He relates a mood with an effectiveness that no objective account could offer, but with an air of authority that a straight piece of fiction or biography would not provide. It is Mee's style that makes the book a cohesive and meaningful treatment of "the wounds that Watergate inflicted on the American psyche" (as the blurb...