Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should the legislatures pass sweeping or innovative measures, will the Supreme Court go to the activist conservative extreme, striking down the new laws as unconstitutional?as it did, for example, with much New Deal legislation in the 1930s? Last year Burger and Blackmun voted to invalidate Congress's extension of voting rights to 18-year-olds before the constitutional amendment had passed. Even so, many students of the court detect an air of passivity in the new alignment and this suggests a seeming paradox: the court may not actively resist legislative initiatives...
Sweden is in one of its worst economic slumps since the 1930s. Switzerland's balance of payments is running a deficit for the first time in ten years. Of the major European powers, only Britain and France show signs of strong growth-around 5% each for the fiscal year ending mid-1972. Still, the U.K. expects unemployment by Christmas to reach a 30-year high of 1,000,000 (out of a labor force of about 25 million...
...Tavern on the Green. Like an army of extras for a Fellini movie, the guests turned out to nibble at hams decorated to resemble Indonesian masks, and to dance until 4 a.m. to live rock. Transvestites right out of The Damned, complete with dark red lipstick and 1930s feather boas, shouldered their way slinkily past matrons from Westchester. One unidentified chap wore a beige net jumpsuit with nothing on underneath, and a woman in gray velvet knickers pulled her off-the-shoulder blouse well below her bosom, while photographers immortalized the view...
...kangaroos and sold their pelts so he could pay the entry fees for local bike events. McNamara reached his peak in the 1920s as champion of the six-day marathon races held at Madison Square Garden, but continued to whoosh around the track until his retirement in the late 1930s. The battered bicyclist later fought alcoholism, then returned to the sport in the 1940s as a referee...
When he was a hot-eyed student leader in the 1930s, Westerners in China described him as "a zealous, devoted, incandescent Communist." Now Peking's ambassador to Canada, Huang Hua is radiating a different sort of incandescence. As the first envoy from Mao Tse-tung's regime to set up shop in North America, he has become the most sought-after diplomatic celebrity in the Western Hemisphere...