Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where is the passion in today's journalism that was so prevalent 25 years ago? Are there no "real" issues like the ones that were so important in the 1960s and 1970s? Perhaps we should face the reality that back then, times were more exciting: the sexual revolution, race riots and of course, the Vietnam War. Not enough could be said in those times about those issues. So many different and unique insights and perspectives were given by journalists that people actually enjoyed reading about the same issues over and over again...
Journalists rarely go beyond the recognition of the obvious effects of these affairs. Contrary to the 1960s and 1970s, we do not dig deep into the "why's" and the "how's" of what we feel and what this all means for our society. Are the issues of domestic violence and the strength of the family which dominate our culture in the 1990s comparable in importance to racism and war which dominated our culture years ago? Journalists and the rest of society seem to say no. I disagree...
...what is going on. I want to read and hear about the prevalence of dometsic violence and the cases of matricide beyond what happens on and what directly affects this campus. We need to provoke students (who were such an important and influential component of the excitement of the 1960s and 1970s) to think, react, protest and write with the same passion that was felt by students back then...
Throughout the 1960s, Havel wrote essays and plays that went unpublished in his native country but greatly shaped underground Czechoslovakia. Over the next decade, he was a leader of the Charter-77 movement in which he helped to produce a manifesto of Czech citizens' criticisms of the autocratic regime...
Band of Gypsys was recorded in the very last moments of the 1960s, and this accident of fate actually serves as powerful symbol for the whole album. The concert at New York's Fillmore East which comprises this album took place on New Year's Eve 1967-70. The first side consists of two of Hendrix's most powerful artistic statements, epic versions of "Who Knows" and "Machine Gun." These two tracks can be seen to represent an anguished re-evaluation of the end of an era of optimism marked by the late 1960s. The second side of the album...