Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little argument that the 1960s was a time of turmoil, of bitter protest and brutal violence, of confusion and finally, of near despair over the American destiny. This week, in a special section, TIME takes a long look back at those troubled years and finds a fascinating parallel in 19th century Europe, when men also called for a total revolution in human behavior...
...calls this "moment of mania," and plunges back into the wilderness-America's Garden of Eden-to retell a primal myth. In a sequel of seven comparatively short poems, he takes Naturalist and Bird Painter John James Audubon as a kind of frontier Adam, sketching in his 19th century life as a drama of innocence, guilt and final redemption...
...Army lawyers fear that detailed press interviews with potential witnesses may permit the accused to claim that they cannot get a fair trial. Almost surely, moreover, both Calley and Mitchell will argue at their trials that they acted under "superior orders," a legal defense that gained respectability in the 19th century when military officers extolled iron regimentation and insisted that superiors could do no wrong...
...future years, the lottery will only apply to those who turned 19 during the previous year. Once you are originally assigned a lottery number, it is yours for the rest of your draft eligible career. Those who get through their 19th year with no exemption without being drafted will probably never be. If a man's exemption ends before he turns 26, he becomes liable to the draft for a year according to his number. just as if he were...
...found much more than birds and quiet. Akenfield is the absorbing result. It is remarkable both as literature-a kind of Suffolk Spoon River-and as a sociological report on a par with Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, a journalistic study of poverty in 19th century Britain...