Word: 1960s
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During the tumultuous 1960s, Brokaw covered California politics and the civil rights movement for NBC's Los Angeles television affiliate. He was frequently bounced from one time zone to the next...
...course, changes in the American family culture go well beyond geography.... [The 1960s] backlash in its raw fury was too indiscriminate. It attacked the good as well as the evil, especially when it came to the place of the family and personal commitments...
...softcover catalog describing items for sale. That desire for material proof indicates that the Onassis estate auction confirms what was proved by the reaction to the death of Mrs. Onassis two years ago--that the fascination with John F. Kennedy '40 and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and with the early 1960s, will endure well into the next century...
Marcy Mousavi '99, a student in my course this spring--of course, today's students are largely the children of the adolescents and youth of the 1960s--told me that her parents have been rock-ribbed conservative Republicans all her life; and so she was astonished last summer to discover packed away in the basement of her home a rug into which was knit the visage of John F. Kennedy...
This is not to romanticize the early 1960s nor to obscure either Kennedy's personal flaws or the fact that his actions sometimes didn't match his soaring rhetoric. But that rhetoric still resonates because it put forth a faith that the highest duty of government, and of us all, was to improve the common weal. It was rhetoric which helped energize the nation because it was spoken by a politician who said proudly that "I do have a great liking for the word 'politics'.... It's the way a president gets things done...