Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea, a symbol of values that America has always taken pride in: social and physical mobility, practicality, informality, even rebellion (such as when Woody Allen wore a pair of Converse high-tops to escort First Lady Betty Ford to the ballet in 1975). It has only been since the 1960s that sneakers have become the shoe of everyday life, the U.S. form of mass transportation. Worn by bums and billionaires, All-Stars and klutzes, the sneaker is a quintessentially democratic shoe, the rubber soul of America...
...small for intellect but large enough for household chores. When the tiny-brain theory bit the dust (elephants, after all, have bigger brains than men), scientists began a long, fruitless attempt to locate the biological basis of male superiority in various brain lobes and chromosomes. By the 1960s sociobiologists were asserting that natural selection, operating throughout the long human prehistory of hunting and gathering, had predisposed males to leadership and exploration and females to crouching around the campfire with the kids...
...consumers and companies work off the vast debt they assumed in the 1980s. But there is much to be gained. Increased investment and long-term thinking, if it endures, could help rebuild the competitiveness of American industry and bring back the kind of prosperity not seen since the 1960s...
Gustav Mahler was a peripheral figure until the early 1960s, when Leonard Bernstein combined his directorship of the New York Philharmonic with a CBS recording contract and his own magnetism to translate a deep personal identification into an enduring Mahler revival. In 1985 Bernstein undertook to re-record the nine symphonies, plus the Adagio from the unfinished 10th, live for Deutsche Grammophon, using three virtuoso orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Result: this definitive 13-disc boxed set. Bernstein finds the universal in Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath...
STILL, was this presidential material? I began to see the usefulness of his efforts and the electric attractiveness of his campaign, even if it fails. His promise to wage "an insurgent campaign" is reminiscent of Abbie Hoffman, the 1960s radical and self-described "American dissident." Like Hoffman, Brown is unashamed to knock the establishment, unashamed to appeal to the people's sense of "what's right...