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Africa has outgrown some of the problems it faced right at the end of colonization in the 1960s, the president said...
...Falwell has made an important break, one he compares in historical importance with his baptizing blacks in the early 1960s (which many whites in his church opposed) and his founding of the Moral Majority in 1979. "Homosexuals are the last pariahs in this society," he says. "We've got to reach...
...1950s and 1960s, in the pages of Popular Mechanics and Life magazine, The Future was characterized as a time when smiling housewives didn't have to worry about doing the housework because their robots would do the work for them. The Donna Reeds of the world would have more time to spend with their kids instead of laboring over daily chores. Forgot to cook that four-course meal, Mom? Just put meal capsules on the plates. The kids'll be patting their stomachs in a few seconds...
...allows Bolcom to deploy his chorus to galvanizing effect. View is among the first American operas to take as a theme the immigrant experience, and Bolcom, 61, is just the man to forge a musical language appropriate to the task. A prime mover in the ragtime revival of the 1960s, he has long been up to his ears in vernacular music, lavishly stirring it into his classical compositions (McTeague, Songs of Innocence and Experience) and accompanying his wife, the mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, in delectable recitals of popular song (they do everything from Sondheim to Shine On, Harvest Moon...
...year's biggest surprises, blowing past seemingly invincible blockbusters like Limp Bizkit and even the mighty Backstreet Boys during its amazing run up the charts. Since its June debut, Supernatural has sold a cash register-popping 3 million copies while drawing an uncommonly diverse coalition of fans: grizzled 1960s hippies; university kids who prefer Dave Matthews but know a good jam when they hear one; Latin rockers lured by fiery guitar and tropical-tinged rhythms; and, as Santana himself describes them, "kids who aren't as old as my Metallica T shirt." Supernatural's fortunes are still rising; this week...