Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schoolchildren. For 135 years. South African schoolboys, like their brothers in England and the empire, have had to learn mathematics twice-first in the manner of the civilized world, which counts on ten fingers and decimalizes accordingly, and then in the English manner, which counts laboriously in 12s and 20s...
...this sounds familiar to U.S. scientists and educators, who have long been plagued by the same problem of research v. teaching. A peculiarly Russian difficulty is the high average age of Soviet scientists. U.S. scientists get their doctorates in their late 20s, but most Russian scientists wait until they are 50 before they even try for a Ph.D. Older still are the top men of the scientific hierarchy. "These venerable scientists," says the article, "are responsible for the situation because they feel that only a person of advanced age can become a doctor of science. This artificial retardation...
...Beat Generation has finally got what it always wanted-lost. Essentially the products of a public-relations campaign carried on by amateur flacks in stovepipe slacks, the untalented beats picked their own title and by noisy promotion tried to associate themselves with the talented expatriates of the '20s whom Gertrude Stein named the Lost Generation. With the help of eager squares, including some journalists, the beats even styled themselves a Movement-but it was one of the great stationary movements of all time, since nothing budges that is fueled by pretension...
...virtually assume the posture of an expectant, concave catcher's mitt. Though Paris fashions have been irresolutely marching backward for several seasons, the big, bold step this year was apparently inspired by a hit movie running in Paris called The Crazy Years, a documentary of the '20s...
...author takes his eyes off them. Even cultists who cozy up with these 814 pages may find themselves merely Snowbound and Snowblind. And yet Snow seems to touch a nerve in 20th century readers-perhaps because he evokes with easy assurance the intellectual and social history of the '20s and '30s; or perhaps because his concept of life as a conspiracy in quest of power has a timeliness and meaning that even the most dawdling prose cannot wholly obscure...