Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster...
Democrats broke into traditional Republican strongholds in New England; Republicans made their best showing since Reconstruction in the South. In a dozen states, the voters split almost down the center of the party dividing line; rarely before in U.S. political history had there been elections in which so many Republican...
Amid the bulletins that torrented forth, the most astonishing was that Democrat Lister Hill, veteran of 25 years in the U.S. Senate, was running behind his Republican opponent, a political novice named James D. Martin. And, of all places, in Alabama-where no Republican had come within miles of winning...
Talk about Tide. Republicans won some surprising victories in contests for state and local offices, made some respectable showings elsewhere. In three counties in North Carolina, G.O.P. candidates swept every major contested office, upsetting the speaker of the state legislature's lower house in a contest for a state...
According to the West German Music Council, the number of music students who chose the violin as their principal subject decreased by 30% between 1953 and 1960. There is a general shortage of instruments, teachers, and practice rooms. The basic reason for all this, say some German musicians, is that...