Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upset by jeers from the bleachers. After all, he knew a damnsight more about the art of tightrope walking than anybody else in the world." If Blondin could calmly eat an omelet high above Niagara's roar, Lewis asked, "why should Johnson-the smartest political acrobat of the 1960s-allow himself to be upset by his Viet policy critics...
...trouble began. Salzgitter's iron ore proved inferior and too expensive to compete with ore from Sweden, Venezuela and Liberia. Ore stockpiles grew to 2,300,000 tons. Seeking to diversify, Salzgitter blundered into acquiring the ailing Büssing truck works for $12.5 million in the early 1960s. Recently Treasury Minister Kurt Schmiicker called that decision "the most striking error made by a company's management in the past few years." Büssing now contributes more than half of Salzgitter's losses; every fourth truck from Büssing goes without a buyer...
...establish abstract expressionism. In the early 1950s, he had devoted himself to a bloodthirsty series of darkly lurid women totems (among them, Marilyn Monroe). No sooner had his women gained acceptance than he switched again, to abstract landscapes, shown as if glimpsed from some speeding auto. In the 1960s he returned to women, this time pink and gaudy (TIME...
...against the war, they must oppose--and even obstruct--complicity with the war where they have the most power, in the University. Their decision to adopt what many Faculty members call "McCarthyism of the left" doesn't bother them. They care about Vietnam, and U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s not the repressive atmosphere of more than a decade...
...Revolt. On the top spiral at the Guggenheim are displayed the eminents who died in the 1960s but whose work still seems relevant to the post-meta physical moment: the dadaist abstractionist Arp Giacometti's existential armature figures, the dynamic welded sculpture of David Smith, and the work of Burgoyne Diller, a precursor of minimalism. Next are the old masters whose common sensibility was formulated before World War II: Picasso, Nevelson, Lipchitz, Calder. Then come two generations of artists who, in Fry's opinion, are at once trying to escape from Renaissance definitions of sculpture and "in revolt...