Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlikely possibilities as Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. White House aides point out that Tower cast one of five votes against the censure of Dodd's father Thomas, who was charged with misuse of campaign funds when the two men served in the Senate during the 1960s. They suggest that Kennedy might be brought around because he too has been victimized by rumors and innuendo, much of it spread by Republicans. But if anyone can bring every last Democratic Senator along, it is Sam Nunn. Before the Armed Services Committee vote, he persuaded Richard Shelby of Alabama...
...gentler designation colored. Early in this century, when the legal battle against Jim Crow laws was being pressed by the N.A.A.C.P., Negro returned, but with a respectful uppercase N. That gave way to black during the militant days of sit-ins and mass demonstrations during the 1960s. Blunt, proud and unequivocal, black embodied the sheer racial confidence that the civil rights movement had engendered...
...work was highly influential from the 1950s until the late 1960s, when it began to draw fire from Marxist and other leftist critics who said Parsons' scholarship about the stability of systems masked a conservative defense of the status...
Roberts and Rouse manage to complement each other well on this tune. Robert supplies just the right amount of light chord action when Rouse, who played with Monk in the 1960s, give his instrument his all. In addition, the bassist, Reginald Veal, also does a bang up job. Veal, who is currently a member of the Marsalis quintet, not only blends well with Roberts and Rouse, but he successfully explores a wide variety of interesting themes during his solo...
Since the 1960s we have had extraordinary freedom in this country, and we are seeing the good and the bad sides of the same coin. We've had tremendous prosperity. In many ways we have fulfilled the dream of the old utopian societies of the mid-19th century. But the other side of the coin of prosperity is money fever and the vanity that is the undoing of all the characters in Bonfire...