Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russian movies in the heyday of Eisenstein, Podovkin, and Dubshenko were aesthetic masterpieces. Each single shot would have made a still photograph magnificent in its own right. But the beauty of these films is so striking that it is occasionally distracting. At some point between then and now, the Russians learned to use the aesthetic genius of the early movies in a more natural way, without degenerating into the general conventionality of Soviet painting, or the sterility of most of socialist realism. A Summer to Remember includes its quota of trite sequences, but for the most part it uses inspired...
Abstract art, in its heyday after World War II, had a vitality and expressiveness that will forever enrich painting and sculpture. But in much of the abstractionist work of recent years, the vitality has seemed played out, and a sizable school of critics has decided that abstract is old hat. Last week, musing over the recent annual at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Frank Getlein, the conservative art critic for the liberal New Republic, gave a lively verdict on the state of abstraction today...
Rejected Crown. The biggest and most elegant new casino is named Crockford's, and in tradition and atmosphere it does not recall "Monte" so much as the pre-Victorian London of rip-roaring Regency bloods. In its heyday, Crockford's was the acknowledged heaven of gambling hells. Benjamin Disraeli, who had to wait six years before being elected to membership in 1840, likened its original building in St. James's to "Versailles in the days of the Grand Monarch.'' It was a favorite haunt of politicians, and the Duke of Wellington instinctively repaired to Crockford...
...heyday of muckraking was the ten years from 1902 to 1912. Ironically enough, the movement was launched by McClure's not with any high impulse toward reform but as a coldly calculated device to boost circulation. Soon the new journalism of exposure was taken up by a score of magazines- Munsey's, Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Everybody's, Hampton's, the Independent, the American Magazine. They all followed the same formula, and they ranged far for new public enemies, setting their sights on everything from New York's Trinity Church to Georgia's prison...
...heyday of U.S. feminism, an indomitable suffragette gave a discouraged follower some militant advice: "Call on God, my dear! She will help you!" But the Deity ignores wrongly addressed prayers, and He has kept to the old system, under which women bear babies and men pretty much run everything. No woman has yet been elected President, and, as Critic Diana Trilling once remarked, it is hard even to imagine "a play called Death of a Saleswoman." Women are still at sea, and their rule is men and children first...