Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late '70s, this plan is nearly Napoleonic in scope, and it does not lack for skeptics. The massive culture enclaves of the past two decades, symbolized by Manhattan's Lincoln Center, are causing financial trouble for the arts organizations they house. Denver may also learn about the perils of overbuilding. But last week there was no time for such pessimism. The first new structure of the center, the Boettcher Concert Hall, opened to raves from the public and from music and architecture critics. The three days of programs became the kind of celebration that happens when a city...
...Italians and neorealism. British comedies made the world laugh in the '50s, and the '60s saw the crest of the French New Wave. But as far as foreign films are concerned, the '70s belong to the Germans. With little encouragement, less money and no older hands to guide them, a few extraordinary young directors have given birth to a phoenix-the brilliant German cinema of Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch that Hitler consigned to ashes 45 years ago. "We had nothing, and we started with nothing," says Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who at 31, with 33 films...
...complex, fascinating brothers took their achievements lightly. In Rome to be honored by Pius XII, Ronald chat ted amiably with the Pontiff about the Loch Ness monster. When Edmund, in his 70s, was asked to write his autobiography, he declined, but suggested a title: Must We Have Lives? Penelope, happily, decided that they must. - Mayo Mohs
...amidst the euphoric state of celebration after the exhausting ordeal, two major points remained: First of all, the effectiveness of an organized student expression of opinion was re-established. The notion of passivity that so many had attributed to students of the '70s was drastically broken. It would be overly dramatic to say the Pennsylvania sit-in marked a resurgence of the activism of the '60s, but the idea that students can still act on their own behalf when they feel the need to do so was proven true...
...womens' movement, as it evolved in the late '60s and early '70s, brought into full view a whole slew of problems and injustices, of which both men and women are the victims. Some seem relatively straight-forward, such as job discrimination; some were enormously complex, such as the various issues revolving around human sexuality. Unfortunately, as Gunther's article suggests, the latter type is being milked for all it is worth in the commercial world...