Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Premier of Portugal, which until four years ago was a rightist dictatorship. Last year in Spain's first free national elections in more than four decades, the Socialist Workers Party of Felipe González emerged as the second most powerful political organization of the country's post-Franco era...
...storytelling, and movies like the anti-Japanese war film On the Sungari River, banned since the mid-1960s, can again be seen. In general, the Chinese press has gone to great lengths to portray the entire 17-year period before the Cultural Revolution as a kind of halcyon era, when life was normal and the old veteran bureaucrats were in charge...
...classical and romantic works--the staples of any concert repertoire--are not the great creations that everyone automatically considers them. The familiar figures like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven did indeed write music unrivaled for all time. But occasionally one yearns for compositions which not only appeal to our own era, in any number of vague ways, but which have also been conceived in our own era. I remember a symposium on modern music I attended a couple of years ago in which the composers--among them Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell-Davies--said that the age of technology, futuristic abstraction...
...friend once said, "is nothing more than having someone to go down the drain with." Obviously, not everyone will subscribe to this view, but the statement indicates the paranoid feelings almost everyone does have about that important--and hopefully permanent--linkage. The prospects are particularly frightening to baby-boom era children; at least one out of three marriages we have seen are no longer extant, and over 40 per cent of new marriages are doomed to failure. Yet people still fall in love and decide to wed. The rest of your life is a hard thing to face alone...
DIED. Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr., 58, the first black four-star general in U.S. history; of a heart attack; in Colorado Springs, Colo. A child of Depression-era Florida and a veteran of the segregated armed forces, James joined in an early black sit-in in 1945, flew 101 combat missions in Korea and 78 more in Viet Nam, rose to be commander in chief of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) before his retirement this month. In answer to questions about his career, James developed a standard response: "I got here because I'm damned good...