Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gasp, isn't segregation bad? Isn't that what that whole ruckus in the 1960s was about--ending segregation? What about that Brown vs. Board of Education thingy? If we go back to the segregation of unrandomized housing, aren't we taking a step backward...
...board is meeting, and we've gone too far. I've got to launch my missiles!" (The not-so-gentlemanly reply, reported later in the press: "Go the hell back to North Carolina.") McColl never fit with the other good ole boys sitting around Charlotte in the 1960s, talking about how they were going to get rich, what they were going to do with all their money. McColl--who worked for a bank!--didn't talk about money...
JERRY VAN DYKE, star of the 1960s sitcom My Mother the Car, featuring a 1928 Porter: I'd like to have my mother resurrected because I miss her. That's not possible. So what I want is a '55 Thunderbird, my first car when I got out of the service. I got it on a used-car lot before they knew how good they were. Now I drive an '84 Rolls. But I'd still rather have that Thunderbird...
...evening's recurring themes was the pre-professionalism of today's undergraduates compared to the progressive idealism of their counterparts in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
Affable and street-wise, Weill, 65, grew up middle class in Brooklyn and started his career on Wall Street in the 1950s as a messenger for Bear Stearns Co. By the early 1960s he had raised $200,000, and 15 acquisitions later he built Shearson Loeb Rhoades into the nation's second largest brokerage. In 1981 American Express bought Shearson, and Weill tagged along, hoping one day to succeed CEO James Robinson. He preceded him instead, leaving in 1985; Robinson was bounced...