Word: 1960s
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...early- to mid-1960s, though, the persistence of prosperity finally became too blatant to ignore, and one prominent economist proclaimed that we had one foot through the door of a Golden Age. Recessions, if any, would be short and mild; John Maynard Keynes had shown us how to stop them. Lyndon Johnson never doubted that a growing economy would generate enough revenues to finance wars against communists in Vietnam and poverty at home-simultaneously. Civil-rights crusaders never considered the possibility that blacks would be educated and trained for good jobs that would fail to appear. Even hippies assumed they...
...patronage of unprofitable arts and cultural activities tilted in the 1960s away from private donors toward an increasingly activist Federal Government. The results of the 1994 elections ensure that the cultural debate of 1995 will center on reversing that trend. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the new Republican majorities in Congress are determined to chop off funding to the National Endowment for the Arts, which last year distributed $146 million to 3,800 organizations and individuals, and to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which in 1994 meted out $285.6 million to the Public Broadcasting System and its 345 member stations...
...case that has left many African Americans skeptical, that may not be enough--especially given the bureau's targeting of civil-rights leaders in the 1960s and the more recent harassment and discrimination lawsuits brought by minority agents. Farrakhan, for one, told a crowd of cheering supporters in Chicago last week that Shabazz was a victim of ``wicked machinations'' and that the FBI was trying to turn prominent African Americans against one another...
DIED. PAUL DELOUVRIER, 80, French civil servant who was Governor of Algeria in the waning days of French colonial rule, then oversaw the modernization of the Paris region during the economic boom of the 1960s; in Provins. In 1958 Charles de Gaulle picked Delouvrier to head the French administration in Algeria. For three years he sought to quell the Algerian independence movement while trying to placate disruptive French army officers who suspected that Paris was intentionally letting the colony slip away. In 1961, during a helicopter ride over Paris, De Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told...
Perversely, though, politicians are also punished if they do obey. The classic complaint about President Clinton is that he stands for nothing. Which is to say, he's willing to do just about anything to satisfy voters. Since the 1960s, the number of Americans expressing trust in Washington has dropped from around 70% to near 20%. This is commonly interpreted as a judgment against the growing power of special-interest lobbyists. But it could also be a reaction against the increasingly abject spinelessness of politicians, a byproduct of the very same trend. Indeed, the one clear exception to the number...