Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This four-hour film is a fictionized chronicle of several cases of child abuse by Catholic clergy in Newfoundland during the 1960s. Airing in two parts -- Sunday and Monday -- on A&E (check local listings), the graphic drama raises troubling questions about the physical pain experienced by the young boys and the mental agony tormenting their abusers. TIME critic Richard Corliss describes it as "the most compelling, repellent and edifying horror movie of the decade," one with a complex message. The heroes in this film are "small, frightened boys or grown men who need to see righteous revenge achieved...
...other panelists said they agreed that this link was unique to the post-1960s "new immigration. "While they also agreed that immigration has an economic impact on the country, they strongly disagreed about the direction and importance of its effect...
...American Melting Pot has fallen on hard times. It was first rejected in the late 1960s by Marxists and relativists from the Left who claimed the idea of an American culture was some ethnocentric construct designed to preserve the power of the white majority and annihilate the heritage and values of non-white groups...
...wonder Chicago looked like heaven. World War II had sparked an upsurge in factory jobs, and black workers from the South were suddenly in demand. Yet the influx of migrants, and the refusal of white neighborhoods to integrate, gave rise to ghettos. As the series moves into the 1960s, familiar urban dynamics start to appear: the emergence of gangs and drug-related violence, as well as the arrival of civil rights activists, who fought to integrate the city and faced opposition as fierce as anything encountered in Little Rock or Selma...
...skewed relationship between federal and state power. Most Governors considered a re-evaluation long overdue. Although the New Deal's assumption by the Federal Government of the U.S.'s primary responsibilities and powers may have been one of the century's noblest undertakings, at some point in the late 1960s or early '70s the pendulum had swung too far. There was, it seemed, no part of life too small for the Feds to micromanage. Or to mismanage, since most programs were fought over by multiple sparring congressional committees. Creative Governors like Engler, Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson and Massachusetts' William Weld...