Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest worldwide wave of student activism started in the U.S. several years ago, partly as a demand for more freedom and power of decision on campuses. It was stimulated by two larger emotional issues. The first was civil rights. In their demonstrations in the early 1960s, U.S. students discovered that they had the power to move legislators to action. And while they would be horrified at the thought, the students-says Harvard Professor Seymour Lipset-learned their tactics from the white Southerners who used civil disobedience to protest the 1954 Supreme Court decision for desegregation of schools. Out of this...
...neither recent nor remarkable. Thomas Jefferson, who claimed "I am a sect in myself" and Thomas Paine, who observed "My mind is my own church" set the tone for it. Today, dogma is rejected largely by the young, particularly those of us who have come of age in the 1960s. It was with awe and hope that we first heard the echoes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's bomb-rocked prison. There, the 37-year-old theologian urged man to find Christ at the "center of life" by participating in the struggles of the world. This was the supreme religious...
Both men readily conceded that such disobedience as the Negro sit-ins had shown once again the value of the practice. In those actions of the early 1960s, said Griswold, "perhaps what mattered was not merely the moral fervor of the demonstrators, or the justice of their cause, but also the way in which they conducted themselves." It was clear that neither he nor Morris thought that today's demonstrators possess much of the dignity and restraint that were in evidence then...
Paradoxically, the first fact to be faced is a happy one: there is much evidence suggesting that violent crime in the U.S. has-at least until recently-not been increasing relative to the population. Although the FBI reports a 35% total increase during the 1960s, many experts argue that this figure overlooks population growth, improved police statistics and the new willingness of the poor to report crimes that used to go unrecorded. On the whole, Americans are now more apt to settle their arguments through legal redress, or at least nonviolent cunning, rather than with fists, knives and guns. Organized...
...flipped open a dictionary at the word dada, French baby talk for "hobbyhorse." Incorporated into the more structural surrealist movement in 1924, it immortalized a species of hoopla and hubris that has become characteristic of modern American society. Dada's pranks and surrealist spectacles were revived in the 1960s as Happenings, which in turn have been commercialized by department stores, and ultimately popularized by flower children as love...