Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image of Lott as a moderate may be challenged by his actions during the 1960s. Lars Erik Nelson's editorial in the Jan. 29 New York Daily News describes a pending lawsuit that is forcing the release of the names of people who were involved with the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This commission was a racist organization that was created in the 1950s to defend states rights and white purity against desegregation. It members included redneck sheriffs and snitches, and it financially aided White Citizens Councils, another perversely racist organization whose members wore suits instead of sheets...
...poetry is not much read today. Perhaps almost no one's is. Dickey was a celebrity once, in the 1960s, when poets (e.g., Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg) could still command a modest fame. In 1966 Dickey won the National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice. Readers made a connection between Vietnam and his poem The Firebombing, which recorded an ex-pilot's agony as, 20 years after World War II, he meditated on the holocaust he had dropped upon Japan: "...when those on earth/ Die there is not even sound; one is cool and enthralled in the cockpit/ Turned blue...
...Possibility: early 1960s Technology reduces distortion and weight, and form follows function...
Davis questioned the tendency of black civil rights leaders to cling to the 1960s rather than moving ahead into the next century...
...chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "In the 19th century, the frontier of America was moving from agriculture to manufacturing. Today the frontier is going from manufacturing to services and technology, much of which can be exported." While this revolution has been under way since the 1960s, technology keeps accelerating the pace of change and hence the seemingly sudden development of job opportunities in areas such as computer networking...