Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apathy, Washington has witnessed demonstrations by coal miners, farmers, chiropractors and bird watchers, by mimes protesting the imprisonment of six mimes in Spain, Tibetan-Americans complaining about their passports, and Strippers for Christ. But last week, in the wake of one of the largest marches since the Viet Nam era, in which more than 70,000 people assembled to protest the proliferation of nuclear-power plants, the capital began wondering whether an important movement may be in the process of being born...
WHEN TALCOTT PARSONS, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, died last week in Munich at the age of 76, an era in the history of sociology drew to a close. In a distinguished career of nearly half a century, Parsons, the first chairman of Harvard's Department of Social Relations, established sociology as a legitimate academic discipline that was simultaneously systematic and broad-ranging in scope. Through his translation of the German sociologist Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft [The Theory of Social and Economic Organization], and, later, through the development of his own "structural-functional" theory, Parsons sought to provide scholars...
...practice of reserving certain jobs for whites, this had been breaking down significantly anyway during an era in which unemployment among whites was virtually nonexistent and approached 20% among blacks in urban areas. Employers have long made a practice of hiring Africans for jobs theoretically reserved for whites because no white applicants were available; the job in question would simply be listed as "painter's assistant" rather than painter, or "woodworker" instead of carpenter...
Dependency on the experts seemed tenable in the more innocent era when science was viewed as a virtually infallible cornucopia of social goodies. Americans long clung to Virgil's ancient advice: "Believe an expert." Today, however, Americans are no longer willing to acquiesce gratefully in either the discoveries of science or their application. The citizen has rediscovered that the best of experts will now and then launch an unsinkable Titanic...
...seen the way Harvard played against Army, Penn, or eventual champion Navy (who the Crimson destroyed, 8-2 and 3-1 on April 8) you would never have guessed that the year, or the era of Stenhouse, Bingham, and Brown, would end so swiftly, and so unrewarded...