Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plight of Latin America's middle and lower classes is a radical reversal from the sunny days of the 1960s and early '70s, when the region's rapid economic growth offered the hope of broad-based prosperity. When the countries' heavy debt burdens triggered inflation and stagnation in the 1980s, most Latin American families began sliding rapidly into hardship. This year Mexico's annual inflation rate is running at 17% (down from 52% last year), Argentina's, 3,500% (up from 388%) and Brazil's, 1,600% (up from 934%). Perversely, the rich have helped perpetuate the economic malaise...
...less interested in frightening the viewer than in offering moral parables. Star Trek will forever be enshrined in TV's science-fiction pantheon, but it wasn't nearly so scary as the sight of the cast members growing old in the movies that have followed. The 1960s anthology series The Outer Limits represented the outer limit of TV's flirtation with the fantastic, while Kolchak: The Night Stalker was the closest the medium ever got to a good monster show...
ALTHOUGH these may sound like the voyeuristic, nostalgia-ridden complaints of a menopausal, male professor, there is, from the viewpoint of someone who came of age in the at-least-passionate, though surely not perfect 1960s, something dryly and barrenly antiseptic about this new somberness and deglandularization on the part of youth. There is, I want to shout at them, plenty of time left for the sobering domain of the reality principle to set in, for their ideas of love to be demystified therapized, psychoanalyzed and scrutinized by the masters of irony and the Internal Revenue Code...
...first thought was that the Giants fans were stamping their feet in unison," Wyss recalls. An instant later, the stands began rocking back and forth. A native San Franciscan, Wyss was sure an earthquake had struck. So was Griggs, who as TIME's Tokyo bureau chief in the 1960s had experienced a score of them...
When Mas-Colell was a college student in Spain during the 1960s, he was active in the underground resistance to dictator Francisco Franco...