Word: 70s
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Civility was dealt a further crippling blow by what the author Tom Wolfe calls "The 'Me' Decade." The social crusades of the '60s (the civil rights movement, the antiwar campaign, the counterculture) broke up a lot of institutional furniture but left little to replace it in the mid-'70s except intense, aggressive self-regard. People went to classes to learn what frequently turned out to be bad manners, the assertiveness training courses that held that you have to be pushy to get what you want. Manners were not the message of Robert Ringer's 1977 bestseller, Looking...
...Times has always been '60s going on '70s, a magazine born in the present decade but tailored for people who came of age during the last one, too old for Rolling Stone and too young for Commentary. For five years and 130 issues, the biweekly "feature news magazine," as New Times was subtitled, rushed into that demographic gap with a mix of eye-popping investigative reporting, idiosyncratic political analysis and scary environmental disclosures, all in a high-protein prose that virtually leaped off the page with youthful exuberance...
Hirsch, who was publisher of New York magazine from 1967 to 1971, will remain at MCA to scout new magazine opportunities for the firm and publish Runner (circ. 85,000), a monthly he launched earlier this year for devotees of that very '70s pursuit. Editor Larsen, a former TIME bureau chief and writer, will stay on for a while as Runner's editor. The rest of New Times' mostly young 17-member editorial staff will probably have drifted to other jobs by the time the magazine's last issue hits newsstands Dec. 11. That issue...
...Both the Resolution and the formation of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities were a result of work involving both faculty and students. The student body could, if it wanted, become informed about the CRR. Until it does, any discussion or resolution highlights a problem of the late '70s...the uninformed student body. Yours Sincerely, David E. Randall
...cynical '70s Kennedy fell victim to history's need of a scapegoat. The nation was sick, disillusioned, embittered. Idealism had given way to disappointment and the sins of Johnson and Nixon were visited upon Kennedy. He was portrayed as the villain of the piece...