Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit of the season. The public themes that intrude themselves have none of the hard, brutal edge so evident when draft resisters were burning flags and Middle Americans slapped LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT stickers on their bumpers. Some observers have disconsolately described the decade as the "fragmented '70s." That may mean only that the period, unlike the '60s, lacks a single theme or story?no continuing drama for Americans like Viet Nam. Journalists addicted to a diet of disaster find the present moment disconcerting. One Washington journalist was even moved to complain: "There hasn't been a decent story...
...long as anyone can remember--or at least ever since the first rumors of economic crisis in the early '70s--Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," has been the most popular course in the College, and this year was no different...
...VIET NAM VETERAN. While college students in the early '70s were militantly protesting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, Ron Ridgeway, 27, of Houston's University of St. Thomas, was in a Viet Nam prisoner-of-war camp. The legacy of those war years is a stiff left shoulder, wounded when he was captured. Ridgeway began college as a history major but soon switched to economics and business as a more practical field. Even so, he is finding the job picture bleak. Ridgeway, who married more than three years ago and has a young son to support, is looking...
Trilling, 71, addresses contemporary events and issues with the energy and wide-ranging curiosity usually attributed to the young. She speaks in a distinctive voice, lucid, commonsensical and compassionate. She is an ideal witness to "the self-destruct history" of the '60s and '70s-that "procession of events each of which had its full dramatic or even melodramatic moment, only to be virtually wiped from memory by a next event, a next dramatic moment...
...progress continues at the present rate, the Energy Research and Development Administration-which supplies most of the half-billion dollars now being spent annually for U.S. fusion research-predicts that by the late '70s or early '80s researchers in the U.S., U.S.S.R. and Japan could achieve "break even," or the point at which a machine produces as much power as it uses. Then researchers can concentrate on attaining ignition conditions: the time-temperature-density combinations at which the fusion reaction sustains itself. "By 1985," dreams Ronald Parker of M.I.T.'s Alcator fusion program, "we will have...