Open Era

Open era or Open Era may refer to:

  • Open Era (tennis), the period since 1968 where professionals can compete in Grand Slams
  • Glasnost era, the increased openness in the Soviet Union from the mid-1980s

Open era or wide-open era, may also refer to:

  • Open range era of the American Old West when cattle were allowed to roam freely in many states
  • Early 20th century in many U.S. communities when gambling, prostitution, and/or other vices were tolerated by local governments. Among these communities were:
    • Galveston, Texas
    • Hot Springs, Arkansas

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or era:

    I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
    Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)

    How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)