Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complacent. Says Eugene Atkinson, former head of the Tokyo branch of Manhattan's Goldman, Sachs investment firm: "Despite all our efforts to make long-term plans, we pale in comparison with Nomura's awesome strategic thinking and investment." There is always the reminder of Detroit in the 1960s, when U.S. auto companies thought they were invulnerable to Japanese competition. Says Jayme Garcia dos Santos, general manager of Chase Manhattan Securities in Japan: "It's true that the Japanese have a lot to learn in New York markets. But we all have to be very careful. How often have we underestimated...
...There's not a whole lot of the radical 1960s and 1970s thinking going on anymore. But the owners of 1369 want the classic avant-garde jazz," Broadman said. "And the irony of it all is that just as they were beginning to become successful with that, it's being taken away...
JACKSON also omits the law and order dimension of the drug problem. For many Americans, drugs and crime are synonymous. When they say that drugs are the number one issue, it is not altogether different from the elections of the late 1960s when law and order was the chief issue...
Clearly the word is out of fashion. In the 1950s the term progressive was a euphemism used by Americans who didn't want to admit to being Communists. Today it's used by people who don't want to admit to being liberals. In the radical 1960s, when my ears got their political training, "liberal" was a semicomic term of abuse similar to the wonderful British political insult "wet." It meant wishy-washy, ineffectual, irrelevant. To those ears, today's sinister variants such as "ultraliberal" sound bizarre. In the 1970s conservatives were still claiming prissily that they were the "true...
Oddly enough, nearly everyone in the novel talks this way, as if the U.S. during the early 1960s were crawling with metaphysicians. "There's more to it, there's something we don't know about," muses a Cuban exile and hit man. "There's something they aren't telling us," says David Ferrie, a real person, now dead, familiar to conspiracy buffs. "Something we don't know about. There's more to it. There's always more to it." A CIA operative ponders, "We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression...