Word: 60s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cervantes wrote his masterpiece while in his 50s and 60s, sick to death of the dropsy, jailed as often as not on a recurring charge of embezzlement, harried with an incredible series of family troubles. He was at the bitter end of a bitter life, yet shortly after Don Quixote was done he wrote sweetly: "Goodbye to thanks, goodbye to compliments, goodbye to good friends. For I am dying." Miguel de Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare...
Fragrance Without Substance. But while lighting up obscure corners of the past and its unremembered versifiers and belle-lettrists, Brooks seems unable to evoke the accumulating tension of U.S. life during the '50s and '60s. The Civil War itself plays no role in his book except insofar as it impinges on Whitman's personal development. In his eagerness to recreate the fragrance and colors of the past, Brooks impatiently skips those struggles of the mind and body that comprised its substance. There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln...
India, moreover, slightly inebriated by the scent of independence in the air, wants payment to the last rupee. They ask that a large chunk of the debt be paid off at once, another chunk by 1950, and the rest in the '60s...
...same flag which had survived it. The Navy, which had suffered a great deal more, ignored the anniversary of the Japanese attack. Explained a spokesman: "We want to forget-not remember." *The ultimate arbiter is one Bertha K. Eastmond, a socially unknown, and determinedly anonymous woman in her 60s, who lives in seclusion in Summit, N.J. She started as secretary to Louis Keller, the Register's founder, who hired her because "she could spell and get yacht names right...
...runty reindeer he moved after. And Skum always had an uncanny feeling for the one thing most artists have to learn from other people's pictures-perspective. But until he got too old and fat to camp comfortably, Skum found little time to draw. He was in his 60s before the Swedish inspector of nomad schools (which supplies teachers to follow the Lapps) gave him the notion of writing and illustrating a book about Lapp life...