Word: 1960s
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...many quarters, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932-1982) is remembered mainly for his personal eccentricity. Gould's quirks are legendary: he played in a chair so low his face was only inches from the keyboard, never gave a public concert after the early 1960s (he thought listening to music should be a solitary experience), and wore winter jackets in the heat of summer...
...early 1960s pictures of the site appeared in a creationist book called The Genesis Flood, and the creationist camp seized on them to prove their contention that all species had once coexisted. The arguments were precariously based on the widely held belief that bipedal dinosaurs stepped toe first when walking, a conclusion bolstered by the fact that their tracks usually include only the front part of the foot and the three toes, with the heel generally faint or missing. At Paluxy, some prints are oblong and toeless. True, they are 15 to 20 in. long, but, argue creationists, they could...
...data banks, credit checks and mandatory drug tests on the job. Tom Hayden, the '60s activist who led the Students for a Democratic Society and is now a California assemblyman, takes a slightly mellower view. "I think this country is freer than I thought true in the 1960s," he says. He worries about the perennial American conflict between individualism and community responsibility. "At this point," he thinks, "we've tipped too far toward private interests." As Hayden says, the '60s were incalculably important in defining the meaning of freedom in the U.S. today. The '60s shook loose new forces...
Perhaps the most vital ingredient in Boeing's success is its willingness to bet billions of dollars, and sometimes the whole company, on new types of planes. In the late 1960s, Boeing executives risked more than $1 billion on the first jumbo jet, the 747, and nearly drove the firm into bankruptcy. A decade later Boeing rolled the dice again by investing $3 billion in the simultaneous development of two fuel-efficient, twin-engine jets, the trim 757 and the wide-body...
...William Gass, a very intelligent critic whose opaque, self-conscious novels are the sort of fiction that drives literate people toward Judith Krantz. "This muck cripples consciousness," he proclaimed of pop in 1968. "Therefore no concessions should be made to it." Sorry. Concessions were made. "By the late 1960s," writes Princeton Scholar Louis Menand, "popular culture had permeated every aspect of life with an inexorability that was beyond the powers of any sort of intellectual antagonism to resist...