Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some have pegged today's generation of college students as "apathetic" because 1960s-style protests have disappeared...
...still at it: Ickes, now Clinton's deputy chief of staff for policy and political affairs, uses his control of the campaign purse strings to torment Morris. Eight years older than Morris, Ickes belonged to the Democratic reformers who had taken power on the West Side in the early 1960s. Morris came at them in 1969 as leader of the "West Side Kids," setting up his own political clubhouses, running a slate of candidates for party district-leader slots and getting all seven elected--which gave him de facto control of a 30-block stretch. He flirted with the idea...
...power." For a while he was known only as Charlie--so named by Clinton--the unseen force that hijacked speeches and made policies change course. Chief of staff Leon Panetta threatened to quit unless Clinton brought Morris into the structure. Deputy chief of staff Ickes, his adversary since the 1960s, bollixed Morris wherever he could, refusing his hotel minibar bills and cutting the commission that Morris and his team earned on Clinton's enormous TV-ad budget. Last summer, when Morris urged Clinton to "bust the cap"--refuse federal matching dollars so he could spend limitless amounts...
...When John Kennedy promised that by the end of the 1960s we would put a man on the moon," he says, "everybody, including the scientists, shook their heads in dismay. But we did it. We can cure spinal-cord injuries too, if there's the will. What was possible in outer space is possible in inner space...
Gender prejudices have also been oddly helpful to women in certain sports. While baseball is still mainly a guy's game, softball has a genially coed tradition in America; women's softball became an Olympic sport this year after a long campaign by U.S. officials that began in the 1960s. Soccer is wildly popular in Latin America and Europe, of course--but only for men, not for women. In America, by contrast, men's soccer is still struggling for attention, while schoolgirls play the sport avidly. "There were no inhibitions for girls to play when we were young," says Julie...