Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interviews during the past several weeks, administrators and current undergraduates who have seen the CRR in action call many of those criticisms unfounded. They say the polemics of the 1960s and early 1970s still color students' reactions to the CRR, blinding them to the group's built-in safeguards and the recent track-record...
...stereo TV. An estimated 2.8 million stereo TV sets are expected to be sold in 1986, double the number last year. Meanwhile, the IN STEREO logo is ) cropping up on more and more network programs, just as the familiar IN LIVING COLOR advisory did back in the early 1960s...
Women have been more vulnerable to the disorder because they have been judged by men on how they look since time immemorial, says Honnet. "Now society has gotten even more intense. In the 1960s, there were a lot of plump women in miniskirts, and they managed to feel fine. Over time, as models became more culturally significant, they became icons. We all know their names. Increasingly, movie stars and models embody what women should look like. In the 1950s, women could be curvy and look like Marilyn Monroe. Now there's Jane Fonda [with a fit, muscular-looking body]," says...
...most powerful totalitarian state of our time is also the principal supporter and sponsor of international terrorism. In the late 1960s, Soviet theorists began to emphasize the 'armed road' as the way to achieve power in the western hemisphere. They have set about supporting terrorist groups in this hemisphere. These technicians in violence and propaganda are called national liberation movements...
...drama of Wallace's era was often ugly. In full cry during the 1960s and early '70s, George Wallace set violent passions loose. But then, violent passions raged all over the American landscape in those days. The wildfire on the left set the right to smoldering. Defiant, depthless and charismatic, bristling with an animal vitality, Wallace knew the political uses of resentment, of powerlessness. He began by playing upon the psychology of race in the South, then, going national, assembled a constituency of the aggrieved, of Americans fed up with antiwar protest and long hair and Big Government interference...