Education
Radcliffe College; Harvard University.
(In this volume, Nora Sayre explores the USA's transformat...)
In this volume, Nora Sayre explores the USA's transformation during the 1960s and 70s. She examines the landscapes of the era: student strikes at Harvard and Yale; anti-war veterans; John Birchers; Timothy Leary; Yippies and Aquarians; utopias gone wrong; George McGovern; Spiro Agnew; Richard Nixon; George Wallace; black anger at Watts; the media at work; policemen in college; off-off Broadway; the 1972 Democratic and Republican Conventions; and the rebirth of feminism. This book was nominated for the 1974 National Book Award.
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Radcliffe College; Harvard University.
She was a reviewer of films for The New York Times in the 1970s, and, from 1981, a writing teacher at Columbia University for many years. She specialised in the Cold War and authored books such as Running Time: Films of the Cold War (1982, Dial Press) in which she examined Hollywood movie-making in the 1950s. The Nora Sayre Endowed Residency for Nonfiction was created at Yaddo, an artists" community in Saratoga Springs, New York, to support her literary legacy.
(In this volume, Nora Sayre explores the USA's transformat...)