Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stealing government documents and feeding them to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The two men admitted to stealing the documents, but maintained that their goal was to help normalize relations between the U.S. and the nation we bombed, defoliated and depopulated during the '60s and early '70s. True, they could have gotten life sentences--but the fact that they were convicted at all demonstrates that there are serious problems in the federal government and in the White House...
...past. That is a symptom of Americanism that dates to the Jacksonian Era. I do not suggest any of that; even so it is difficult not so sound like (God forbid) Eric Severeid. It is the general, but by no means pervasive, comfort of America today that makes the '70s so inert and dangerous. But every intelligent person clucks over the headlines each day and then forgets them, unless they directly affect him or her. And no one does anything. Despite the claims to the contrary, progress is not forthcoming...
THERE ARE any number of reasons for the inertia that has seized America. There is, of course, the old "Nixon and Vietnam and inflation sapped the vitality of the '60s" line--but comparisons of the '70s to the '60s are hackneyed and generally odious. The '60s, if nothing else, were a dynamic, essential turning point, of which the '70s are the antithesis. Then there is the "lobotomization of America" argument, which points to television and pre-professionalism and People Magazine as the leading indicators of plasticity, stupidity and rampant escapism. Armchair (and journalistic) philosophers can rant forever, yet still achieve...
...apply for African duty. Says Vilma Espin, 46, head of the Federation of Cuban Women and wife of Fidel's brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro: "At the height of the war in Angola, we had thousands of letters from women of all ages, including ones in their 70s, asking to go as cooks. One of the most important changes in Cuba since the revolution is that women who were afraid to go out of their houses 20 years ago are now requesting permission to go on internationalist missions...
...inside, the least romantic. He was a realistic dealer in men, a master of games who understood the importance of ideas. He advanced the cause of America, at home and abroad. But he also posed for the first time the great question of the '60s and '70s: What kind of people are we Americans? What do we want to become...