Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plenty to say about. But today's punk rockers have no time for euphemisms like Chuck Berry's "ding-a-ling." Four-letter words are not spared. And when Thundertrain bawls, "I'm hot, ho, hot, hot for teacher," there is no missing the point. The 1970s have been dominated by graduates of the 1960s rock era -Paul Simon and Paul McCartney moving out on their own, groups like the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship rambling on as before. The New Wave seems to be saying, "The superstars are dead. Long live the superstars...
...that docile. The aura of rebellion is crucial to punk's pleasure. Swing-bred parents of the 1950s may have found Elvis Presley corrupt (as did CBS-TV, which cut him off above the pelvis), but the kids loved him. Folk-and rock-bred parents of the 1970s may not love the Dead Boys, but a lot of the kids do. The biggest catastrophe for punk rock would of course be huge success. How does a rebel maintain his pose while earning $ 1 million a year...
Simple Task. The cheaters escaped detection for so long because-the bureaucracy being what it is-no one was thoroughly checking the lists of those getting welfare against the lists of those on public payrolls. In the early 1970s that relatively simple task was begun by federal and local computers, and the search is now paying off. In Chicago, a task force of 60 investigators will soon start reviewing 4,500 more suspicious cases that have been identified by the computer process. Working closely with local officials, federal inspectors are conducting or planning to start similar investigations in other major...
...three school show similar successes and problems. All three programs were initiated by students with faculty support. Martha Pollock, coordinating assistant of the Penn program, says agitation at her school in the early 1970s included 'sit-ins and other exciting thing." Cathy Portuges, coordinator of the UMass program, says that things were quieter there. She said the students had strong faculty support, particularly from women teaching courses on women in the English department. It should be pointed out, however, that each of these schools had many more courses in the field before the concentration was set up than Harvard...
...growth dead? The debate over whether economic expansion ought to be laid to rest as a social goal has been perking along briskly since the early 1970s and the publication of The Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome's fervent (and flawed) argument that as population increases, resources will soon run out if industrial development rushes on unchecked. One of the few academics who have rallied to the pro-growth side of the debate so far has been Britain's Wilfred Beckerman, a witty, long-haired Oxford economist who has emerged as a kind of St. George...