Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bishops could point to small signs of success: the overall seminary dropout rate has declined from 30% in the 1960s to 10%. But even if the vocational decline continues, the hierarchy has an answer: in recent years, lay people have taken over many of the tasks of running their parishes. "In that vision of the church, you don't need as many priests," said one bishop. That is cold comfort to Catholics who lack a priest to say Sunday Mass, but it is a vision that the bishops are determined to keep in case their gamble fails...
...delicate straits as well is real estate developer William Zeckendorf Jr. He was 36 in 1965 when his father, the brash and bold William Zeckendorf Sr., lost his fortune, which in the early 1960s might have been worth as much as $500 million. The son has been relatively cautious, but he is nevertheless feeling the pinch. His Zeckendorf Towers in Manhattan lost its largest commercial tenant, Integrated Resources, when the investment syndicator filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Still, because most of his debts are corporate and not personal, Zeckendorf stands to lose a relatively modest $7 million...
Those conservatives or liberals who fraternize with the enemy are progressively more uncomfortable having friends who disagree with their other friends. Conservatives sometimes take too literally Jesus' saying, "He who is not for me is against me." Liberals go equally overboard applying the 1960s radical slogan, "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem...
...search for simplicity at the deepest levels of nature is one of the enduring themes of physics. Perhaps the greatest milestone in this quest has been the quark model of matter. In the early 1960s, theorists proposed that the scores of known subatomic particles were really composites, made up of just a handful of smaller particles. Even protons and neutrons, the major components of atomic nuclei, could be described as being made of these more fundamental objects, called quarks...
...Academy of Sciences honored the men who first detected the existence of quarks. Americans Jerome Friedman, 60, and Henry Kendall, 63, of M.I.T., and Richard Taylor, 60, a Canadian working at Stanford, share the physics award for discoveries made at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center beginning in the late 1960s...