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...first the Community's common market worked astonishingly well. During the 1960s, unemployment among the Community countries averaged only 2.1%, vs. 4.7% in the U.S.; economic growth and increases in industrial production outpaced the U.S. averages. Says Economist Ergas: "In the '60s we knew precisely what we wanted: cars, washing machines, fridges. It was easy to handle...
...Hudson’s autobiographical play and follows the life of Rachel Crosby or “Nanny,” a selfless woman who adopts and nurtures a boy named Junior, while building a rich community in the strong African American cultural climate of the late 1950s and 1960s...
...1960s, he helped develop several government programs for children, including Head Start and the Elementary and Secondary Education...
Having grown up in isolation with her father on a secluded island which was once the site of a 1960s commune of which Jack was a part, Rose has had very little contact with the world besides her father and the man who delivers her flowers (she has a deep interest in planting and studying botany). She is perfectly satisfied with this situation, but when her father becomes ill and they realize that he is dying, Jack decides to bring home his lover (Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich) and her two sons to live with them...
...quote King not just to talk about how far we have come, but also to comment on the long road ahead—with racial disparities just as entrenched, American foreign policy gone awry, and a vision of common humanity increasingly relegated to grainy protest footage from the 1960s...