Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just one industry but all mankind, making the paradigm-shattering argument that what was really changing society was the radical acceleration of change itself. Future shock, the Tofflers said, is what happens when change occurs faster than people's ability to adapt to it. The book resonated for the 1960s counterculture, and in some ways it echoes even louder in the digital era. "People today," says Alvin Toffler, "are scared silly...
...page opus in consecutive rotations while riding a mountain bike? Could it be that I am home alone with The Power of Beauty because I am frightened of expressing the full range of my repressed sexuality? Or have I come a long enough way--from my mother, from 1960s-brand feminism, from female competitiveness--that I am able to look myself in the eye, hold up Friday's book with pride and embrace the power and joy of my own, and every other woman's, beauty...
DIED. ELBERT TUTTLE, 98, former chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals whose unflinching, pivotal civil rights rulings in the 1960s helped dismantle Southern segregation; in Atlanta. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
...didn't have cheerleaders or a homecoming parade and dance. Our football team was laughable. And many of our liberal teachers preached an anti-establishment rhetoric acquired from their days as tie-dye T-shirted Oberlin students in the 1960s...
...invent superstring theory, which posits that the basic building blocks of nature are not tiny particles but unimaginably small loops and snippets of what loosely resembles string--except that the string exists in a bizarre, 10-dimensional universe. The current version of the theory took shape in the late 1960s, when the tall, thin, shy, wispy-voiced scientist was still an undergraduate at Brandeis...