Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even a group of painters in their 30s and 40s who throw together unsocialist images just because they feel like it. The Western world sees precious little of their work, for the Moscow Union of Soviet Artists is dominated by middle-aged academicians who learned their trade in the heyday of Stalinist realism. Their ponderous paeans to Lenin and heroic bobbin tenders go into official displays such as the Venice Biennale and Expo 67. Only an occasional private exhibition affords Westerners a glimpse behind the red-tape curtain. One such view is offered by the new display of Russian painting...
Though the proliferation of jukeboxes and discotheques has winnowed the ranks of the cocktail pianists since their heyday in the 1950s, most U.S. cities have at least one velvet-lined cave where night-lifers go to swig and sway to their favorite mood merchants. Among the best of them...
During its 13th century heyday as a Mediterranean trading power, Genoa came to be known as "La Superba" -which, since it can be taken to mean "the haughty," was not necessarily a compliment. Still, the appellation was particularly apt for Genoa's business men, a tightfisted, close-knit breed that ranked among the world's most con servative. Interested only in sure things, they earned a lasting distinction by re fusing to stake a local boy named Chris topher Columbus to a daring expedition...
...Prime Decades. Primitive American painters have flourished from the time of the Quaker sign painter Edward Hicks (Peaceable Kingdom) to Grandma Moses, but their heyday was between those two great upheavals, the American Revolution, which released in a new nation the sense that "every man is a king," and the Civil War, which coincided with the steamroller uniformity of the industrial age. And even these prime decades went largely unnoticed and unappreciated until the 1920s. Their rediscovery was the work of American artists who recognized that in early American folk art there was a valid commentary on the American scene...
...through my two years at the school," says Meldon Levine (Berkeley '64), "they tried to discourage me from going for a Ph.D." Levine, a Berkeley student government leader before the heyday of the Free Speech Movement, had applied to the Woodrow Wilson School with the intention of becoming a teacher. In light of the school's obvious dislike, even then, for Ph.D. types, he was surprised to learn he had been admitted. But the campaign to turn him away from teaching ultimately had its effect, if not quite the desired one. Today Levine is a first-year student at Harvard...