Word: eras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Solidarity is at once a personal and a universal matter, for it raises the fundamental question of what is the "self" and what is the "other." One of the glories of our era is that we have witnessed the birth of global solidarity; imperfect, struggling, but nonetheless real. We see it in the creation of the United Nations, in the concern about nuclear war, in the growing worldwide resolve to protect the environment and in the struggle against AIDS...
Five musicals, adapted from familiar favorites, strut onto Broadway. A wunderkind offers a Caine Mutiny-style drama for the Ollie North era...
...only modern President to try to tamper with Thanksgiving. Back in 1939, Roosevelt touched off a patriotic uprising when he issued a proclamation unilaterally shifting Thanksgiving from the then customary last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the fourth Thursday (the 23rd) as a way of granting Depression-era merchants a longer Christmas selling season. F.D.R.'s Thanksgiving formula was later codified into federal law, but not before Ogden Nash composed the following couplet...
...headlines portraying Japan -- as distinguished from Japanese individuals or companies -- snapping up American treasures. Similar coverage greeted OPEC in the 1970s, when Arab oil sheiks seemed ready to slap down their petrodollars and pick up America piece by piece. Yet even the most alarmist press scenarios of that era did not envision oil merchants daring to seize the home of the nation's Christmas tree...
...Japan is hardly a suitable candidate for press pity. American reporters have a duty to be tough minded in their exploration of Japanese business practices. Yet publications have all too frequently reached for easy headlines and analyses that evoke some of the worse aspects of the yellow- peril era. That is unfortunate. For, to the extent that coverage of Japanese business is reduced to the 1989 equivalent of "Japanese plan invasion of industrial fields," journalism will be that much more diminished and readers that much less informed...