Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite political openings between China and America, despite the brief flowering of Maoist chic along Fifth Avenue in the early '70s, the art of the People's Republic of China has never been properly exhibited in an American museum. Doubtless there is some ideological reluctance. Though the cold war is formally over, not too many U.S. museum directors are ready to confront their more conservative trustees with large comic-strip gouaches bearing titles like Occupying the Ideological-Cultural Field in the Countryside and Workers Condemn the "Gang of Four...
...final arbiter of the nation's money supply through eight of the most tumultuous years in economic history-years marred alternately, or sometimes simultaneously, by double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates and deep recession. Though some of his actions helped to aggravate the economic maladies of the 70s. he became just as revered as Martin-and he was a far more complex bundle of professional and personal contradictions...
When large sports-oriented schools in the NCAA cut their budget by phasing out freshman teams in some sports during the early '70s, the Ivy League voted to retain freshman teams, Kaufmann added...
...acceptance of the evils of the outside world. Critics like Coffin tend to see the resurgence of Evangelicalism as one more sign of a self-preoccupied and self-serving national swing toward conservatism in general. The argument is that the outward-looking reformist '60s have regressed into the selfish '70s. The charge has some merit. But there is also much to the Evangelical theory that a man must dramatically change his life and values before he can begin to affect things around him. "We want to change the world," says Manhattan Evangelist Bill Bray, "but we want to change ourselves...
Alice Adams seems marginally aware of this in her new novel whose title atmospherically refers to Blues Singer Billie Holiday. The book spans roughly 20 years: from the '50s, when an author's "sensibility" was all, to the '60s and '70s, when private ironies and quiet implosions of emotion gave way to a journalistic relevance. In current fiction that usually means female counterparts of Saul Bellow's Dangling Man. The crucial difference is that today most heroines seem free of the need to huff and puff about the Big Questions: the loss of tradition, unpardonable...