Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While city-room veterans sometimes howl at the loss of space, the writers producing the soaps argue that they report one of the biggest stories of the '70s-the ongoing breakdown of sexual taboos. "Federal Triangle tells a lot about Washington in a way that you can't always do in news copy," says Washington Star Portfolio Editor Mary Ann Dolan. "It's great to get the characters to do things that they would do in real life but would never tell us as reporters," adds Reporter Louise Logue. So that their settings and dialogues will...
...anchoring California's lifestyle. Others insist that the curtain fell last year, when citizens realized the inevitability of an earthquake and the consequences of a drought. But everyone agrees that the California of the '60s a mystical land of abundance and affluence, vanished some time in the 70s...
...state rushed into the '70s without breaking stride. Its gross product was larger than all but five countries; were California an independent nation, its per capita income would have been the world's highest. Yet, statistics aside, something was wrong. Michael Davie noticed the change in his 1972 book, California: The Vanishing Dream: "In the very part of the globe where there is the greatest concentration of knowledge and the most power over nature ... many people had begun to doubt whether knowledge and power really did bring worldly happiness. The economic and technological machine was grinding...
Still, all this is very far from the image of Utopia that was so seductive in the '60s and early '70s. Perhaps the pursuit of Utopia has become small bore everywhere, concentrating on traffic control, garbage compactors and the blessed ability to breathe even half-clean air. The loss seems greater in California because there the expectations were so much greater than elsewhere. If the continent once seemed to tip west, allowing all things unattached to roll to the Golden State on the Pacific, it has by now regained its equilibrium. California has clearly lost the magic...
...adults see live shows and big-name concerts for the first time-and possibly the last, until their return to a theme park. Notes California Sociologist Jim Dunnivan: "In contrast to the conspicuous consumption of the '50s and early '60s, the emphasis of the '70s is on experience. Today's adult isn't content to sit back and be a spectator. Instead, he wants to get actively involved as a participant." Says Gary Kyriazi, author of The Great American Amusement Parks...