He had high hopes for Sydney: "Every well wisher of Sydney, who sees and understands what magnificent latent possibilities there are before her must hope that she will for all time be the Queen City of the Southern Hemisphere; and that the new century will open finding old ways departed from, and a glorious new era of progress, prosperity, morality and cleanliness installed in our midst.
If she and her contemporaries spearheaded an era of progress in which different ethnicities were celebrated on magazine covers and catwalks, the past decade has seen the proportion of non-white faces on a downward trajectory.
The problem with juxtaposing the Populuxe era of progress with the Great Funk era of stagflation and disappointment, however, is that it sidesteps the momentous era of the '60s, which embodied tumultuous social and cultural change.
"We honor the suffragettes who altered the course of history and ushered in a new era of progress for all Americans, not just women.
In retrospect, however, the celebrations that November night in 2003 heralded not a shining new era of progress for Australian rugby, but the beginning of a downturn from which, in truth, the game has never really rebounded.
The Atomium was born in an era that saw the future both as a promise of progress and a source of concern.
To me, it's an era of peace and progress, and that's a big part of my campaign".
Netanyahu added: "In February, when millions of Egyptians thronged to the streets in Cairo, commentators and quite a few Israeli members of the opposition said that we're facing a new era of liberalism and progress.
