Word: 1950s
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...civil rights and anti-war activist in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1955, Seeger was sentenced to jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities, according to the Harvard News Office statement...
...busy and crowded well into the evenings; where nosy neighbors kept kids out of trouble. Though Alexander constantly invokes "the challenges of the next century"--a riff mainly designed to paint Bob Dole as a fossil--the vision he offers is one of middle-class village life in the 1950s...
President Clinton, with the whole federal bureaucracy at his disposal, has the most opportunities to trade favors for cash. You might remember how, just after the 1992 campaign, Al Gore was enthusiastically promoting an "information superhighway," to be built by the government like the interstate highway system in the 1950s. But on December 21, 1993, Gore gave a speech announcing that "unlike the interstates, the information highways wil be built, paid for, and funded by the private sector...." Coincidentally, on December 21, 1993, the Democratic National Committee received a $50,000 check from MCI, $15,000 from NYNEX...
...blame. Pipher points out that girls enter junior high school faced with daunting magazine and movie images of glossy, thin, perfect women. She argues that pop culture is saturated with sex; violence against women is rampant; and drugs and alcohol are far more accessible than they were during her 1950s girlhood in a small Nebraska town. "I don't think the past was idyllic," says Pipher, 48, a mother of two whose husband, Jim, is also a psychologist. "But children felt safer...
...wake of the sexual revolution came AIDS. Once the realization had sunk into the human psyche that sex can be life-threatening, the nature of relationships in our society had to change. And there were two main roads our culture could follow. The first was to return to the 1950s notion of postponed intimacy. The second was to retain sex as part of the dating scene, but to make relationships monogamous. And this is what appears to have happened. Quite simply, the behavior of the most technologically advanced and socially complex civilization the world has ever known has been forced...