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1960s Yves Saint Laurent made crimson an integral part of his signature look in the 1960s???so much so that models attending castings with the designer were asked to wear red lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Alert | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

Unlike Laplace's dark star, this Einsteinian black hole?the name was not coined by Physicist Wheeler until the 1960s???had far more finality. Since relativity forbids anything to move faster than light, an idea unknown in classic Newtonian physics, escape was impossible. All the energy in the world could not extract an object from a black hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Diplomatic Game. Nixon's new policy is a direct shift away from the cold war rigidity and messianism of the 1950s and early 1960s???an ideological policy based upon a national agreement that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to contain Communism. As Harvard Political Scientist Stanley Hoffmann observes, "The external development of the 1960s made obsolete the strategy that had been devised in the late 1940s. The war in Viet Nam destroyed the consensus. In a way, this may have been a service?at what a price?for it forced Americans to face the obsolescence of policy earlier than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The New US. Role in the World | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

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