Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view that Matisse was as avant-garde an artist as Picasso hardly took general hold in America until the 1960s, and came from his late work. For some years before his death in 1954, Matisse had been working to solve the split he had always experienced between drawing and painting. By cutting shapes out of precolored paper -- cutting, as he saw it, directly into the color -- and then pasting them on the surface, he closed the gap between outline drawing and color patch. As in Memory of Oceania, 1952-53, he gave the art of collage a brilliance, size...
...bogy behind much of the adverse change in the job market is global competition, the single most powerful economic fact of life in the 1990s. In the relatively sheltered era of the 1960s, a mere 7% of the U.S. economy was exposed to international competition. In the 1980s that number zoomed past 70%, and it will keep climbing. The first and most visible victim of the competition was the automobile industry, which suffered massive layoffs in the late 1970s and 1980s. The latest point of impact is America's service sector, which includes everything from banks to airlines, publishers...
...social commentary while getting laughs. TV movies and drama shows like L.A. Law tackle virtually every headline-making issue that comes down the pike, from date rape to capital punishment. Nor has left-leaning political satire been unknown on network TV: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late 1960s and Saturday Night Live starting in the mid-'70s took on Establishment targets with irreverent glee...
...University has been reluctant toabandon its longstanding need-based financial aidpolicy. Along with need-blind admissions,need-based aid pioneered Harvard's successfulrecruitment strategy in the early 1960s...
...ROTC debate did not always center on the military's treatment of gays and lesbians. In fact, when vehement protesters helped to force the organization off campus in the late 1960s, they were concerned with Harvard's ties to the military industrial complex...