Word: 1960s
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Soyinka said the essay was based on notes that he took while imprisoned in Uganda in the 1960s. A jail, Soyinka said, "gives the prisoner a background of warnings and guidances...
...1960s, thousands of Harvard students took stands on local controversies, marching for fair housing policies in Cambridge and against highways that threatened neighborhoods far removed from the Square...
...victory was sweet revenge against a political enemy whom he had long since sworn to oust from office. But with only about 27% of the vote, Demirel was carefully looking for partners with whom to form a fragile coalition. Demirel, who served six times as Prime Minister during the 1960s and '70s, was twice removed from office by the armed forces. This time, in addition to high % inflation, he inherits a budget deficit of $6 billion and a foreign debt of $44 billion. Although the country desperately needs a program of austerity, Demirel is reluctant to impose such a remedy...
...October 1, Adam K. Goodheart wrote an Opinion piece ("PC Past and Present") in which he compared "the chic anti-PC brigade, circa 1991" to a white supremacist writer of the 1960s. He even called the writer, Carleton Putnam, "the Dinesh D'Souza of Jackson, Mississippi, circa 1961," in a reference to the opponent of political correctness and author of Illiberal Education...
...feel about Pop art depends, to some extent, on how old you are. Nobody who was born around 1940 and came of age as a "consumer of images" in the 1960s is likely to react to the big Pop art survey now at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (through Dec. 15) in the same way as someone born after 1960. The oldie remembers the exuberant optimism of art's embrace of the mass media that lay at the core of Pop: superficial, maybe, but promising a fresh world of demotic feeling. The younger visitor, whose baby sitter...