Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was a faith in the 1950s and 1960s thateconomic growth would benefit all Americans,...Butfrom 1979 to today, economic growth has not beenequal for all income groups," Reich said...
...Adjusted for inflation, the top 20 percent ofincomes have increased by 18 percent... [while]the bottom 20 percent have seen a 11 percentdecline," Reich said. "Unlike the 1950s and 1960s,we didn't grow together, but we grew apart...
...preservation of a folk tradition that nearly expired during the region's Americanization in the 1950s owes much to accordionist Savoy, 54. The godfather of the Cajun revival, he hosts a weekly Cajun jam session in the front room of the music store he has operated since 1966 in Eunice, a small town (pop. 11,000) northwest of Lafayette. A master craftsman who builds 75 to 100 accordions a year, some of them costing up to $1,400, Savoy is a purist who prefers French to English, forbids amplification at his jam sessions and plasters the walls of his workshop...
...literary long haul. Whatever momentary noise he made as the Tasmanian devil of American letters (when he would go dervishing through the culture, talking tough, chewing the furniture), his 27 books have drawn a permanent and distinctive trajectory. His obsessions usually lead back into the continuum of the 1950s and '60s, into the universe of the cold war, of media metastasis and dangerous fame, of glamorous, conspiratorial violence, of the garish existential dreads and lusts (to use the old hyperthyroid Mailer vocabulary) that it has been his gift to conjure...
Surprising the audience, the duo also broke into a playful medley of the 1950s country hit "Hello, Mary Lou," Jim Morrison's "Break On Through to the Other Side" and a mellow version of "Dazed and Confused...