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...indefinitely into the future, like those high rates of firewood consumption. Another peril is basing forecasts on assumptions about what science might be capable of producing without taking into account what people will actually welcome or demand. Two-way picture phones, for example, which went on sale in the 1960s, have yet to find a market largely because there has been no demand for them...
Approximately 100 people turned out at the Hillel last night to listen to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III discuss 1960s civil rights activist Malcolm X, the man who once called himself "the angriest Black man in America...
...student, mentioning that Black-ownedbusinesses are even more rare now than they werein the 1960s, asked if the lives ofAfrican-Americans have really improved...
...view that Matisse was as avant-garde an artist as Picasso hardly took general hold in America until the 1960s, and came from his late work. For some years before his death in 1954, Matisse had been working to solve the split he had always experienced between drawing and painting. By cutting shapes out of precolored paper -- cutting, as he saw it, directly into the color -- and then pasting them on the surface, he closed the gap between outline drawing and color patch. As in Memory of Oceania, 1952-53, he gave the art of collage a brilliance, size...
...bogy behind much of the adverse change in the job market is global competition, the single most powerful economic fact of life in the 1990s. In the relatively sheltered era of the 1960s, a mere 7% of the U.S. economy was exposed to international competition. In the 1980s that number zoomed past 70%, and it will keep climbing. The first and most visible victim of the competition was the automobile industry, which suffered massive layoffs in the late 1970s and 1980s. The latest point of impact is America's service sector, which includes everything from banks to airlines, publishers...