Word: 1960s
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MAYBE it's the Oliver Stone movies. Maybe it's China Beach. Maybe it's just 1960s activists coming out of hibernation...
...involved in Southeast Asia 20 years before American soldiers began to die there in large numbers. From Truman to Nixon, U.S. Presidents propped up undemocratic and unpopular South Vietnamese regimes and lied about the extent of American participation in the war. In the 1960s these immoral policies, justified only by anticommunist rhetoric and concerns about U.S. prestige and hegemony, composed the framework of anti-war protest...
...upbringing. He too came from a peasant background and entered the world of crime through family connections. In the chapters on his personal history, the book details all the people whom Saddam personally has killed, his role in coup attempts and his job as a torturer in the early 1960s...
Beattie is influenced by popular ideas born in the 1960s and 1970s. She adores Richard Bach's "metaphysical classic" The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory. She "really connected" with Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and mentions her debt to transactional analysis. Beattie also strongly endorses 12-step programs tailored to the needs of codependents, which entail detaching from the addict, admitting powerlessness over the addiction and turning one's life over to God or a "higher power." Her latest book is Codependents' Guide to the 12 Steps. She says, "Go until the magic works on you. And if you go long enough...
What grows around goes around. In the 1960s down-to-there hair was the counterculture's banner. It was extolled in a musical named -- what else? -- Hair as "long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty." Baby boomers, who now occupy the midlife establishment scorned by Hair, took up the ponytail as a way of being nostalgic while subjecting their flowing locks to a certain adult discipline...