Sentences with phrase «middle decades»

Brown shirts, blue shirts, black shirts: they were the unfortunate rainbow coalition of societies whose civic cultures were in crisis during the dark middle decades of the twentieth century.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

This theme of God's working in history to effect salvation which the community of faith can not effect for itself has had a powerful influence in theology through the middle decades of the 20th century.

When neo-orthodox writers pointed this out in the middle decades of the century, many listened for a time.

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, New Critical pedagogy dominated high - school and college English classrooms, prescribing close attention to individual words, images, and other nit - picking details of the literary text.

But the form critic utilizes the work of literary critics, for example, in the inspired work of the father of form criticism, Hermann Gunkel, in the early decades of this century, and G. von Rad now in the middle decades.6 Only relatively few, notably among Scandinavian scholars, have completely abandoned the presuppositions of literary criticism.

Halladay was a work horse, the middle decade of his career a peak that few pitchers achieve — and maintain — in their careers.

Film - makers and advertisers specialise in admiring portrayals of teens and twenty - somethings, but those in the middle decades of their lives are usually depicted as doing little more than serving time between the turbulence of youth and the decline of old age — and occasionally being tipped into crisis by the sheer ennui of their mundane existence.

The authors explain that compulsory sterilization programs existed in the U.S. until the middle decades of the 20th century.

And so in the middle decades of the 20th century, the U.S. experienced excellent economic growth without noticeable increases in inequality.

Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

The middle decades of the twentieth century saw an extraordinary flourishing of the illustrated, pictorial dust jacket.

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, American artists forged styles that reflected the new global prominence of the United States.

First, it gives a sense of what the Dallas art scene was like during the middle decades of the 1900s.

Sadie Coles in New Burlington Place is currently showing new large - scale paintings by Prince where ink - jet print images of female figures — drawing upon the heroic poses of neo-classical sculpture, but also suggesting pin - up and soft - porn magazines from the middle decades of the twentieth century — have been over-painted and endowed with gigantic sculptural limbs in grisaille, pink and mustard, referencing Picasso's stylised representations of the female form.

Models suggest that the concentration of chlorine and other ozone - depleting substances in the stratosphere will not return to pre-1980 levels until the middle decades of this century.

The combined impact of all effects was cooling for those middle decades of the 20th century.

This evidence went to whether there was a substantial interruption in the observance of traditional laws and customs in the middle decades of the 20th Century.