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:

    “There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing the airy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)