Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Douglas, from the English department at Columbia University, actually changed her project after coming to the center, giving up "American Saints of the Victorian Era" for a less highfalutin subject: "Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and the Literary Life of New York in the 1920s." "There's a broader audience than the university is telling us," she insists, voicing a favorite wisdom of the center...
...debate kept circling back to urgent yet timeless questions. What makes a good member of society? The "higher purpose" his nation exhorts him to? Or the very specific moral and legal demands put upon him by his neighbors, his village and the ties of blood and land? In an era of megamachines and megastates, do we overrate the big in history-the Roman Empire, the papacy? If you wanted to change, really change, the world today, wouldn't you do well to "cultivate smaller gardens," the neighborhood community rather than the U.N.? The seminar concluded in stalemate...
...Civil War and Reconstruction Era," David Donald (omitted next year...
...SPECTRE of the 60s raised by that hackneyed term is not inappropriate, for the AEC's unique concept of American music has its origins in the artistic and cultural ferment of that era. Our popular culture has conditioned us for the epehmeral, but the emergence of the Art Ensemble as a tangible force in jazz is in fact as much a culmination as beginning. The AEC has worked together for over fifteen years, and during that time they have released over 20 albums, as well as an equal number of records under individual Art Ensemble members' names. Great Black Music...
...Duke Carmel, the next DiMaggio, or Bobby Murcer, the next Mantle? Horace "Hoss" Clarke, keystone man fielding like a keystone--ricochet off the chest and take it from there--him neither? But you remember Ralph Houk, kicking the dirt; it sticks in your mind, an emblem of an era of frustration...