Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chrysanthou and Kizilyurek are excellent company, and it's a pleasure to hear two such intelligent and articulate individuals discussing the phenomenon of exile and divided identities. One is reminded of Latin American intellectuals during the 1960s and 1970s. However, the film's conceit--two boyhood friends reuniting to explore their bisected country--is a tad pat. Chrysanthou and Kizilyurek's devotion to the structured format of their meeting, and the intellectualizing of the issues presented detract from the emotional immediacy of the film...
...trip to Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s that changed his mind about his vocation. Carnesale was in the capital to work on safeguards for the nuclear non-proliferation treaty...
Slichter, 70, a professor of physics and chemistry at the University of Illinois, is the lone non-Harvard academic on the Corporation. His appointment, at the end of the turbulent 1960s, was designed to increase the representation of academics on the University's top governing board...
...Blackbird, originally designed in the 1960s for US Air Force strategic reconnaissance, set the record for flying at Mach...
...member of the Federal Communications Commission, has decorated her office with Trek paraphernalia and dressed up as Captain Picard for Halloween. "I like the show because it shows me tomorrow," she says. And sometimes today: the cellular phone-like communicators used by the Trek crew back in the 1960s are almost exact precursors of the personal-communication systems the FCC has just begun issuing licenses...