Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rosenblatt said "the idea that liberals were the enemy" was one of the worst results of the radical politics of the 1960s...
...contest against former radical and present-day activist Tom Hayden. At 57, Hayden wears the dark suit and close-cropped haircut appropriate to his position as a California state senator, but TIME's James Willwerth notes that voters apparently couldn't dismiss the mental image of Hayden as a 1960s radical: disheveled, angry, defiant. In the campaign, Hayden proved that he hadn't lost his passion. He attacked Riordan for his record on racial healing and environmental issues. Meanwhile, Riordan quietly painted a picture of a rebounding L.A.: "We've restored confidence in our city, we've made our city...
Through the 1960s, Marshall Herff Applewhite, the man who would end his life with the musical name Do, had been relegated to secondary roles at the Houston Grand Opera. The son of a peripatetic Texas preacher, he had given up earlier plans for the ministry to pursue a career in music, supporting himself, his wife and two children with jobs that ranged from rehearsal conductor to part-time English teacher to occupational therapist at a tuberculosis sanatorium. But he was pushing 40, and his struggle against his homosexuality was unraveling both his marriage and his academic post in a religious...
Back in the 1960s, at the same time that the Beatles were wailing about the Taxman ("If you drive a car, I'll tax the street/If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat"), the men at the IRS, in their IBM white shirts and skinny ties, were at the cutting edge of computer technology. The IRS had automated its processing system, eventually gathering everything into 10 service centers, with a computer nucleus in West Virginia. For the first time, taxpayers were required to write their Social Security number on their return. Computers, it seemed, could keep track...
...McBrien feels that we have quite enough heaven now, thank you. McBrien, a liberal Catholic theologian at the University of Notre Dame who has skirmished on occasion with the Vatican but whose theological and historical grasp few would question, believes that before the Vatican II reforms of the mid-1960s, his church had slipped into the lazy role of using heaven and hell as "stories meant to encourage and frighten." Catholicism's once vivid otherworldliness had devolved into a sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse to measure...