Word: eras
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...said that citizens of the Commonwealth countries were also citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, thus providing the legal framework for future waves of immigration. By 1955 the first brown and black faces appeared in Yorkshire mill towns, drawn by high wages and, ironically, a vision of colonial-era civility. In 1962, after this immigration reached a peak of nearly 90,000 a year, a worried Parliament began limiting Commonwealth entry and the influx was reduced...
...next five years to under 5,000 annually. Also, those who are admitted would have to prove they can support themselves without aid while looking for jobs. The aim is a virtual halt in nonwhite immigration. Vows a senior Whitehall official: "We shall see the end of the immigration era within the lifetime of the present Parliament...
...slamming the door will not soon dispel the antagonism toward nonwhites that originally arose in the colonial era and was later compounded, as the Empire faded, by an uneasy feeling that racial diversity was yet another symptom of national decline. As one troubled Londoner complained to TIME, many Britons "have been made to feel that they don't belong to their own country any more." A white lawyer, speaking about a visit to the capital's racially mixed Peckham area, expressed a common lament: "I felt completely alien. I felt pressure...
...thriller The Conversation, he offered the most sophisticated indictment of Watergate-era politics yet to appear onscreen. Given his talent for fusing ideas with the diverse demands of big-budget entertainment, Coppola was the only real candidate to make the definitive film about Viet Nam. Apocalypse Now promised to go beyond the narrow scope of Coming Home, beyond the wrenching drama of The Deer Hunter. These promises, though broken, can still be seen in the film. Like other legendary movie mishaps, from D.W. Griffith's Intolerance to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Apocalypse Now is haunted by the ghost...
...that byproduct of World War II. Many of the origins of the cold war sprang from decisions made during hostilities. The Allied decision to halt Patton on his dash toward Berlin, for example, isolated the German capital and made it a focal point of confrontation in the postwar era. Says History Professor Robert Dallek of U.C.L.A.: "We have to go back. Where we are now is a direct result of what evolved during that time." To his own surprise, Dallek's newly published F.D.R. and American Foreign Policy, 1932-45, has sold, instead of a few volumes to scholars...