Word: 1960s
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...company's most publicized environmental problems have involved pollution. In the late 1960s, environmentalists charged that a Union Carbide iron-alloy plant in Alloy, W Va., was "the smokiest factory in the world." Since then, the company has reduced smokestack emissions at its factories and adopted measures to ensure the safe disposal of chemical wastes...
...current surge of protest activity began Thanksgiving week with the arrest of four prominent black leaders at the South African embassy in Washington. Since then the demonstrations have spread to eight cities and are expected to attract larger rallies at planned events this week. They have had a revivalist, 1960s civil rights tone, as black activists joined white liberal politicians, labor leaders and clergymen in crossing police lines to be arrested. By week's end 31 demonstrators, selected for their symbolic value, had been arrested in the daily rallies outside the embassy...
...cadences it sets the young imagination on a children's crusade against malevolent power. It describes a vicarious rite of passage through bloodshed and anarchy to heroic manhood; it upends the prevailing social order to establish a new moral equilibrium. For the generation of budding revolutionaries in the 1960s, Frank Herbert's Dune was a magical mystery trilogy that, along with The Lord of the Rings and the Gormenghast books, galvanized the spirit like a Disney Das Kapital. In Dune, rival masters from four planets battled for control of "melange," an addictive spice that conferred powers of prophecy...
...could have been a scene from the civil rights movement of the 1960s: a large crowd of demonstrators, most of them black, marching in peaceful protest down an avenue in Washington, chanting slogans and carrying signs. But the series of rallies that have been taking place on Embassy Row during the past two weeks are against racism in another country: the apartheid government of South Africa. Demonstrators, including such prominent black Americans as Coretta Scott King, Arthur Ashe and Harry Belafonte, called for the release of 13 black labor leaders who were recently arrested and imprisoned without charges in South...
There are several reasons for the flight from California. One is the trend, which has been growing since the early 1960s, to use authentic locations, guaranteeing that the camera is actually where the script says it is. Director Mark Rydell opted to shoot the upcoming film The River in Tennessee because he wanted real local color. "Though great things get created on studio back lots, the East does look different from the West," says Barry Levinson, director of Diner, which was shot in Baltimore, and The Natural, which was made in Buffalo. "At one time Hollywood was crucial. But that...