Word: 1960s
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Adamson, born in India, moved to Kenya in 1924 and in 1938 joined the government wildlife department. In the 1960s he and his wife Joy gained worldwide fame from her best-selling books, like Born Free and Living Free, which recounted their adventures raising captive or orphaned young lions to return to the wild. She was murdered in 1980 by a servant who had been accused of theft and fired...
THIS week has seen an orgy of Woodstock nostalgia. The three-day-long music festival that ended 20 years ago today was the last major event of the 1960s, and it supposedly defined a generation...
...alternative is to ignore it. The Los Angeles Times, for example, sat on a potent article revealing conflict of interest settlements between a financial conglomerate and Mayor Tom Bradley. Bradley, who has been credited with calming racial tension in Los Angeles after the Watts riots in the late 1960s, has been backed by the Times' editors for decades. Finally, The L.A. Herald released its version of the story...
...Roman general once said he could live without a friend but not without an enemy. The same assertion could be made about the women's movement, which won just enough concessions in the 1960s and '70s to induce a sense of complacency. A new generation of college-educated women, having never witnessed a female Phi Beta Kappa being told to make the coffee, considered radical feminism as outdated as Gloria Steinem's aviator glasses. By the presidential campaign of 1988, George Bush could flirt with the idea of recriminalizing abortion, knowing the women's movement was not strong enough...
...since the peak of the anti-Viet Nam War movement in the late 1960s have so many reporters felt the urge to stand up and be counted on a national question. And as with Viet Nam, the dilemma is more pressing for reporters who espouse the liberal side of the issue. "To me, the struggle for abortion rights is as important to women as the struggle against slavery," says a Chicago Tribune reporter. "This isn't about whether they're going to build some bridge downtown. This is about my body...