Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, who would not confirm the Green appointment, said last night the University is looking "towards the future" as it appoints its first provost since the 1950s...
...century or so, the whole concept of class was derided as something foreign and decadent, along the same lines as male cologne, and inappropriate to a nation with an open frontier. Mention of the word could get you strung up or shunned by the politically correct. Later, in the 1950s, use of the word class joined vegetarianism and folk dancing as one of many telltale signs of communist leanings. Hence Senator Philip Gramm's recent denunciation of the Democrats as latter-day communists, "trying to create the same class struggle that failed in the Soviet Union...
...potential series. Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Bugsy) is developing a TV movie about Baltimore cops for NBC. David Lynch, whose Twin Peaks helped launch the current wave of filmmakers experimenting in TV, is producing a new comedy series for ABC, On the Air, about a TV station in the 1950s...
...venture capital. But this direction has been tried before with little success. From the mid-1970s until the 1986 tax-reform act took effect, the tax burden on capital was reduced, but the rate of growth of investment during those years was half of what it was in the 1950s and 1960s...
...Down with democracy, eh Morgan?" reads a forthright late-1950s script in a copy of Edmund Morgan's The Puritan Dilemma, on reserve at Lamont...