Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Germany. European strategic thought should still be based firmly on the existence of nuclear stockpiles on both sides. If Hackett represents a style of thought fashionable among NATO military leaders, it's time they received some re-education in the realities of the post-World War II era...
...doesn't this country have leaders like Roosevelt any more? some Americans wistfully ask. Nostalgia, of course, obscures the tremendous dissension and even hatred that were aimed at F.D.R. in the White House. Still, figures of his size may now be obsolete. The era of great individualists came to an end with Lyndon Johnson, and we are still trying to adjust to the new reality. Johnson lost two wars?the one in Viet Nam and the one against poverty; he demonstrated, among other things, that the resources of the U.S. are finite, a new and chastening realization for Americans...
...list shows how times have changed; women and minorities are better represented than they were five years ago. All those on the list share one characteristic, the sense of boldness that remains the prime prerequisite for leadership in any era...
...equal opportunity in scholastic sports and physical education for girls in Pennsylvania. In 1978 Smeal headed a successful effort to get Congress to extend the time limit for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. She has also directed campaigns that prevented ten states that had passed the ERA from rescinding their positions, and is organizing grass-roots efforts in the down-to-the-wire fight to pass the amendment in three more states. Says Smeal: "The ERA is primarily an economic issue?of security for the homemaker and jobs for the average woman...
...finally, for no clearly discernible reason, "did away with himself as he would an enemy," as another poet, Marina Tsvetayeva, remarked. Official reservations about Mayakovsky's posthumous status were dissipated by Stalin in 1935, when he declared him to be the most talented poet of the Soviet era. "Indifference to his memory and to his work is a crime," he added menacingly...