Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DECISION of Dartmouth, Princeton and Yale to admit women to their hallowed halls early in the '70s put a great deal of pressure on the female branch of the Ivy League to follow suit and open their doors to men. Each of the Seven Sisters responded differently to that pressure: Vassar admitted men outright; Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley settled for sedate exchange programs with neighboring men's colleges; and Radcliffe and Barnard merged with their parent (male) universities. In I'm Radcliffe, Fly Me!, Livia Baker examines the success of each of the routes, and the direct...
Move over, Mary Hartman, and make way for a real lady. Her name is Glencora Palliser-Lady Glencora Palliser. She just may be the most entrancing TV character of the '70s-as quickwitted as Rhoda, as attractive as Mary Tyler Moore, as sexy as any of Charlie's Angels. And where did this superlative creature spring from? Why, from the prolific pen of Anthony Trollope, the very prototype of the long-stemmed Victorian novelist...
Focusing primarily on the "golden age" of rock 'n' roll--the period which, roughly speaking, began with Elvis, and ended as the '70s began--the almost 400 page book includes over 1,000 photographs, and 72 essays on individual artists, the evolution of specific musical styles, and major pop trends. Discographies accompany each essay...
...student movement contributed significantly to the larger social mass movements. This remains the case for the '70s as we engage in a fierce struggle to protect hard-won rights and gains now under attack...
Read Santayana! This sly deprecation tries to mask an aggressive and sometimes furious writer. Despite a distaste for self-revelation, White frequently boils over: he takes after fascists in the '40s, loyalty oaths in the '50s, school prayer in the '60s and commercialism in the '70s. But the author's unwritten motto is always Multum in parvo (much in little). He avoids issues like integration and Viet Nam; the sharpest attacks concern mistakes that are less global than verbal. When the Reader's Digest changes one of his sentences, for example, he fires...