Word: 1970sã
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...example, the aversion to competition, the policy on teaching reading relatively late in child development—in an increasingly accelerated society. Ironically, the fact that I go to Harvard—according to my high school principal, the first grad to do so since the mid-1970s??€”gave these parents irrefutable, all-purpose validation that something must be working...
...Rotters’ Club, in its own way, faithfully represents the violence and melancholy inherent in English culture in the 1970s??€”but does so with a light heart and a sardonic wit, also characteristic of the English. In the end, the reader comes away with a sense of perseverance through a life of dissatisfaction. None of the characters are miserable, nor are any of them truly content. Even in the end, when they have accomplished their goals, they cannot achieve happiness simply due to the fact that unhappiness surrounds them. Nonetheless, the melancholy reads sweetly; the characters push...