But one lesson from that era endures: for all the current awfulness of the Tories, do not think that if any convincing change is to happen we will be able to write them off as political vermin, and imagine they can be pushed to the sidelines for good and all.
Robert Jay Lifton, picking up on Steven Pinker's book "The Better Angels of Our Nature," calls attention to the fact that most of the world's people today experience less mass killing than in previous eras but endure the modern danger of "numbed technological violence".
Three generations of the family eat meagre rations, dress in the style of the era and endure the daily hardship their predecessors would have experienced after Hitler's 1939 invasion of the country.
Also, by the time she came along, the mid-40s, Hollywood had abandoned its 30s pretence that the roaring 20s had never ended, that the golden pre-crash, pre-prohibition era would endure for ever, in favour of something more in keeping with America's dark, postwar mood.
The shortage is especially jarring because supermarkets and big box stores in Moscow and many other metropolitan areas have almost everything else, dispelling any possible notion that the-customer-is-always-wrong retailing of the Soviet era endures.
But as we approach the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's election, on Nov. 6, and the long conflict that followed, it's worth recalling other reasons that era endures.
Therefore, the use of bactericidal agents such as telithromycin for therapy of respiratory tract infections may well ensure that the antibacterial era endures long into the 21st century.
He survived the Isiah Thomas-era and endured through the purge of the last two seasons.
Perhaps no athlete in the modern era has endured more unwarranted ugliness than MMA fighter Fallon Fox.
FAIRY tales generally fall into two categories: B.D., or Before Disney, and A.D., the era that we patiently endure.
His battered legs couldn't endure that era's match-play P.G.A. format that often required 36 holes a day.
