Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Terkel listed the themes of his book as the cornerstones of this century; the Depression, World War II, McCarthyism, the 1960s and the computer...
...same time, Daly's organization will face its own federal cuts. Private charity isn't entirely private, and hasn't been for decades. In the 1960s, when the government greatly expanded its services to the poor, it turned much of the money--and the responsibility--over to those assumed to have an expertise in helping. As a result, 63% of Catholic Charities USA's $1.9 billion annual budget last year consisted of money from federal, state and local governments, including grants from eight different federal agencies. In return, the charity provided such services as battered-women's shelters, day care...
Then, starting in the late 1960s, three paleontologists - Harry Whittington of the University of Cambridge in England and his two students, Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris - embarked on a methodical re-examination of the Burgess Shale fossils. Under bright lights and powerful microscopes, they coaxed fine-grain anatomical detail from the shale's stony secrets: the remains of small but substantial animals that were overtaken by a roaring underwater mudslide 515 million years ago and swept into water so deep and oxygen-free that the bacteria that should have decayed their tissues couldn't survive. Preserved were not just...
...world has seemed loath to view Wild as anything other than a consummate master of a vanished pianistic style. For the past 40 years audiences have favored the colder, more analytical approach of pianists like Leon Fleischer, Gary Graffman and Maurizio Pollini. The brief romantic revival of the late 1960s highlighted his expertise with such composers as Chopin and Lizst, but Wild has never received the critical acclaim he deserves...
...fact, the only hard driving in the entire film occurs in the usual Aston Martin, the standby of Bond movies since "Goldfinger." And not a latemodel, either, but something close to the original 1960s vintage...