Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excitement began to diminish as I realized that I had more than classes to contend with. This feeling of comfort and pride is exactly what was stifled in my parents and others' parents in the 1950s and 60s when Blacks were attacked for simply walking along the street or for trying to buy a sandwich in a deli. While it is true that the physical circumstances under which we lived a few decades ago differ from now, the sentiments of both Blacks and whites...
...January, Campbell named 10 experts to a panel charged with investigating experiments with radioactivity at state schools for the retarded. Scores of teenagers and children at state schools unwittingly consumed small doses of radioactive isotopes in nutrition and other medical studies in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s...
...Haiti's poor, already the poorest in the western hemisphere, who bear the brunt of the embargo. Food prices have doubled, putting staples like rice, beans and oil beyond the reach of many. Relief officials at CARE describe the current situation as the worst since the 1950s, with moderate and severe malnutrition plaguing some 20% of preschool children. Doctors report a rise in tuberculosis cases and an epidemic of anthrax. "The embargo must be lifted," says Christiana Dormestoin, who scrounges food for her four children. "We're poor people. We only want to feed our children. We don't care...
...made a name for itself during the years of silent movies, producing actors like Greta Garbo and directors like Victor Sjostrom, it became practically unknown after the advent of sound. This was the state of affairs until Bergman single-handedly put Swedish film on the map again in the 1950s. Until his retirement in 1983, Bergman produced a corpus of films which marked him as one of the most important and influential film directors of the twentieth century...
...Pauline Kael wrote in her review, the film almsot seems to play itself out in a medieval present. At first there is a temptation to mock the seriousness of the film and the self-importance of the Knight's quest, which at times appears like a remnant of 1950s existentialist philosophy; but the images in "The Seventh Seal" are so hypnotically charged that one is pulled in and held fast...