Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York could be judged by a reading of its Anger Quotient. In the late '60s and early '70s the city fairly smelled of rage; the 1974 film Death Wish-about a white liberal turned vigilante-revenger -received a certain amount of sneaking sympathy at the dinner parties of the white middle class. Since 1976 the Anger Quotient has gone steadily downward. A decrease in violent crimes has been partly responsible. A walker in Central Park is as likely to be overrun by joggers as assaulted by muggers. New York has the fifth highest major crime rate among...
...hasn't settled yet, and now likely never will. After almost three years of legal entanglements, a creative time-out and a lingering celebrity hangover, Bruce Springsteen has come storming back, raising a fine ruckus, not just reaffirming his promise as the pre-eminent rock figure of the late '70s, but redeeming, even enhancing...
During the '20s, space itself?articulated air?became the subject of constructivist sculpture and painting, whereas before it had been the frame for a subject. In the '60s and '70s, the language of photography rather than the pattern of events tended to become the essential subject for many photographers. The retreat from public posture also combined with personal fantasy, reverie and wit. The result has been a rather low-pressure art that refuses to strum on the heartstrings. For convenience, Szarkowski divides the images in this show into "mirrors"?pictures that mean to describe the photographer's own sensibility?...
...Very well then. By the '70s I will have become an industry, the star of countless films and books. Nicholas Meyer's The Seven- Per-Cent Solution will even make me the client and Sigmund Freud the detective...
...believe that the United States will drown in the waves of complacency of the '70s. My reason for this belief is founded on the tenet that an individual can make a difference. Depite the ignominious, alienating pressures of the expanding world. I believe that people can improve their society and that they can enhance their environment. What I submit is not a lofty doctrine of Utopian ideals; instead, it is a confidence, in self and in humanity, that defeats the forces of apathy, insolence, and disgust which have invaded...