Word: 1960s
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Blinds & Shutters by Michael Cooper (Genesis/Hedley; $595). Wherever the artists or arrivistes made the scene in 1960s London, Cooper was there, camera in hand. For those craving a (costly) glimpse of the time when the Beatles and the Stones ruled the realm -- "For a few years then we were just flying," recalls one of the bit players -- comes this collection of 600 works by their court photographer...
Mosteller, who has published more than 250 articles and books, has received honorary degrees from Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago, Wesleyan and Yale Universities. He also helped prepare the landmark Kinsey report on human sexuality in the 1950s, and the Coleman report on educational opportunity in the 1960s...
Mosteller said he taught probability and statistics to students all across the country during the 1960s on NBC's "Continental Classroom" television program. In collaboration with David L. Wallace of the University of Chicago, he also used statistical techniques to determine that James Madison wrote several of the Federalist Papers, whose authorship had been disputed, he said...
...many of the artists who dominated the world of poetry from the 1940s to the 1960s, tragedy was a prominent theme in their lives...
Rifkin, who has no real science background, has been deeply distrustful of scientists since he visited Dachau in the late 1960s. "The Nazis could have just slaughtered people, but look at the manner in which they did it," he says. "It was detached, rational. It was scientific. The Holocaust represents the dark side of the modern...