Word: erasers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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New York and New Jersey voters dealt the federal Equal Rights Amendment two blows yesterday by decisively rejecting referendums on statewide ERAs.
Nostalgia flowers naturally in worried times, which makes other eras seem better. But the contemporary fascination with nostalgia also reflects a different kind of judgment on our age. There is a discontent with the present, a foreboding of a plastic future, a looking back with longing to times that were...
Ships of fools and modern hostelries continue to do the job that mead halls and pilgrimages did for earlier eras of writers. They provide a place where assorted folk can tell their tales, show their colors and generally present themselves for inspection. In The Little Hotel, Australian Novelist Christina Stead...
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X, ex-Muslim and revolutionary black leader, was felled by assassins' bullets as he began a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. Fifty weeks after he had broken with the Black Muslims and had begun to emerge from a black nationalist approach to...
Three wars and a couple of eras of affluence later, Manchester has looked back at his younger country (and presumably his younger self) and asked: What happened in the 40 years between? A natural, even a commonplace question, but to Manchester a question deserving a literal answer, and for over...