Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boiling Point works best when it does for middle class decline what Rich and Poor did for income inequality. Using a flood of statistics and anecdotes, Phillips relentlessly persuades us that the middle class lost out during the most recent period of heyday capitalism...
Before the riot, the poor could at least gain a toehold in neighborhoods like the one at 14th and U streets in Northwest Washington, where the violence began. Though the district had faded badly from its heyday in the 1940s, when it ranked among the most vibrant black communities in the nation, it still had movie theaters, nightclubs and scores of thriving businesses. True, schools were slipping, crime was getting worse and some of the more affluent residents had moved away. But most of the area's hardworking families had no intention of abandoning one of the few relatively decent...
...operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan have held a place of affection among the musically-inclined public for over a hundred years. The Mikado arguably ranks highest on their lengthy list of favorites. In its heyday of 1886, as many as 170 performances are said to have occurred across the country on just one evening. The Players bravely present this classic to a twentieth century audience jaded by MTV, post-modernism and hallucinogens...
Baez's voice was breathy and earthy throughout the concert. It was strong and supple and showed an even greater octave range than in her heyday. Nowhere was this more evident than when Baez set down her guitar to sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Her voice resonated with the strength of experience as it swelled to fill the theater without mechanized amplification...
...figures behind barbed wire. Murdered babies in a bus. Two and a half million people driven from their homes in an orgy of "ethnic cleansing." Detention camps, maybe even concentration camps. Surely these pictures and stories come from another time -- the Dark Ages, the Thirty Years' War, Hitler's heyday. Psychic defenses struggle to minimize, to deny, to forget. Not here; not now. Europeans were supposed to have learned from the last terrible war on their soil not to murder their neighbors. Educated people, on the verge of the 21st century, in a relatively prosperous country that is a party...