Word: 1960s
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...three centuries, the Quebecois -- descendants of France's attempt to plant a North American colony -- maintained a society that was rural, Roman Catholic and inward-looking. But in the 1960s, as Quebecois moved into business and the professions, Quebecois separatists raised their sights. They now control two parties of their own -- the Parti Quebecois, which contests (and sometimes wins) Quebec provincial elections, and the newer Bloc Quebecois, which holds seats in the national Parliament. French Canadians are intelligent and entrepreneurial. When it comes to politics, they're blowhards, endlessly recounting their frustrations, many of them imaginary. Compared with other minorities...
Salisbury writes soberly in staccato prose that "from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s" -- the height of the bloody purges of the Cultural Revolution -- "Mao's quarters sometimes swarmed with young women." The Great Helmsman staged nude water ballets in his swimming pool. "Art ensembles" and "dancing partners" were standing by wherever he went. One of Mao's doctors referred to him bluntly as "a sex maniac...
...late 1960s, at a point when he was furious with those who had thwarted his White House ambitions, Nelson Rockefeller told a group of conservative Republicans, "I'm a hawk on foreign policy, I'm a conservative on the economy, and I'm a dove on social matters. You've got two-thirds of me. What more do you want?" Their answer, of course, was "everything," which Rocky wouldn't, or couldn't, deliver...
...this direction has been tried before with little success. From the mid-1970s until the 1986 tax-reform act took effect, the tax burden on capital was reduced, but the rate of growth of investment during those years was half of what it was in the 1950s and 1960s...
China's huge crop of baby boomers, born in the 1960s when Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution crippled the nation's embryonic birth-control program, have reached childbearing age. They have also developed looser sexual habits: premarital and extramarital sex is rising rapidly...