Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...execs might want to take a spin. Over the past decade, the company's North American unit has been hammered. Although last year VW of America increased sales 1.2%, to 137,885 cars, that's only a third of the metal VW of America moved in its mid-1960s heyday. The idea of reviving the Bug came after VW buffs went wild over a Beetle built for display at the Detroit auto show four years ago. The company did some market research and decided it might be able to win Americans back by rolling out a contemporary version (the engine...
...numbers, listed in Monday's article, sound pretty conclusive. In the poll of nearly 350,000 first-years at 665 colleges nationwide, 74.5 percent chose to be very well off financially as their essential educational goal. This is, not surprisingly, a major change from the 1960s. Polled in 1968, a whopping 82.5 percent of college first-years selected developing a meaningful philosophy of life as their essential educational goal...
...neuropsychiatrist in the Air Force, Coles began working with children undergoing the stress of school desegregation when he was stationed in Louisiana during the 1960s...
Think of Weegee as a chronological and psychological midpoint between two utterly different photographers. One is the turn-of-the-century muckraker Jacob Riis, who saw New York City as a social problem to be solved. The other is Diane Arbus, who found in the city life of the 1960s a psychic spectacle of creepy fascination. Weegee haunts the same kind of shabby neighborhoods that Riis did. But what goes on in Weegee's festive, suffering, unsanitary New York is a sight to be enjoyed more than clucked over. The tenements that preoccupied Riis, a moralist and social reformer...
...sufficiently advanced technology," wrote Arthur C. Clarke in the early 1960s, "is indistinguishable from magic." One lesson of our Man of the Year's life is that while technology lets us produce ever more astounding machines, it has little to say about how we might use them. For that we rely on the likes of Andy Grove. What Intel's chairman has inside is magic...