Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, D.C., organizers of Sunday's pro-Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) march, which drew 100,000 heavily-recruited supporters, were making their final preparations for the rally to save their endangered legislation. The ratification deadline for the bill falls next March, and it is highly unlikely that the necessary three more states will approve the amendment before then. Illinois failed last month after three increasingly futile and bitter attempts; several months ago Kentucky rescinded its approval, as did South Carolina. Failing the necessary 38 states, pro-ERA factions are pursuing a bill in Congress that would extend the deadline until...
...this sort of view is hardly original. Every decade in this century has been condemned by someone as the worst, most hopeless period of history; at the very least, each period was compared unfavorably to the past. That is a symptom of Americanism that dates to the Jacksonian Era. I do not suggest any of that; even so it is difficult not so sound like (God forbid) Eric Severeid. It is the general, but by no means pervasive, comfort of America today that makes the '70s so inert and dangerous. But every intelligent person clucks over the headlines each...
...that was once the residence of the Bourbon kings is now one of France's major tourist attractions. Ten galleries displaying some of the country's greatest art treasures were damaged. A huge hole gaped in the floor of a hall devoted to art of the Napoleonic era. Chandeliers lay in a carpet of crystal shards. Rare Louis-Philippe furniture and exquisite ornamental paneling were reduced to matchsticks. Busts of the great men of France's past were broken. Seriously harmed were six paintings of Napoleon, including...
Presumably, the Bretons singled out the treasures of the Napoleonic era because of the Emperor's untrammeled imperialist ambitions. The Breton nationalists have attempted to stir up support for their cause among other regional independence movements in France, including those in Alsace, Réunion, Guadeloupe and Corsica. But last week's bombing of Versailles was bound to backfire on Corsica: there the island's most celebrated native son, Napoleon Bonaparte, is still a national hero...
Says Dan Morgenstern, keeper of Rutgers University's jazz museum: "We have the living representatives of every style we know-ranging from Ragtime Pianist Eubie Blake, 95, to the great musicians of the swing era and beyond-and you can see all the different music as belonging to the same stream of things." The venerables are revered by young musicians, and a surprising number of the young are choosing to go into the older forms of jazz. The young turks in the trumpet section of Puente's Orchestra are all dying to rip off a brilliant solo...