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Bok, the seventh dean of the Law School took office July 1, 1968, as successor to Erwin N. Griswold, now U.S. Solicitor General, and in his first two years presided over one of the more turbulent eras in the school's 155-year history.
Khrushchev recalls another telephone call, informing him of the 1934 murder of Leningrad Party Chief Sergei Kirov by a Trotskyite dissident. It was that event that set the stage for one of the most terrifying eras of modern history: the Great Purges of the 1930s, or, as Khrushchev calls them...
That is a difficult formula to translate into specific action. Eras do not end with the finality of a third-act curtain; they dissolve gradually like a motion-picture fadeout, blending into the next scene. Nixon, like his recent predecessors, dreams of being the architect of a tranquil future for...
To call Salina Middle America, however, would not be entirely accurate. "We have some pockets of intolerance," says Whitley Austin, editor of the Salina Journal, "but most of the people simply try to be fair." Salina is an accumulation of American eras. Ladies wait for men to open doors for...
Any attempt to argue that similar cruelties have existed in other eras he regarded as an excuse for not facing the truth. It was this sense of tragedy that made him regard the American pursuit of happiness as childish. America, he sometimes thought, is a "madhouse" whose occupants refuse to...