Word: aging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost never found on commercial television. J.T., which will be broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 13,* is an original story written by Jane Wagner and beautifully directed by Robert Young. It is, mercifully, different from most of the pap usually fed to the kiddies on Saturday mornings. Or to any age group at any time, for that matter. "We wanted a children's drama," explained Mike Dann, senior vice president for programming at CBS television. "But we didn't want Disney. We didn't want a story about a cat in Scotland, in other words...
...everyone from Andy Williams to the 5th Dimension has a Hair tune on his album. And the producers have opened bidding for the movie rights, now up to $2.5 million. Which just goes to show that, for American tribal love-rock musicals at least, this is most assuredly the Age of Aquarius. And bread...
...Consumer protest groups, often led by women, have been organized in many states. Longtime consumer activists profess amazement that the public has waited so long to fight back. Until lately, amateur, part-time buyers have felt unequal to challenging professional, full-time sellers. Says Peter Drucker, author of The Age of Discontinuity: "We have been a very patient people by and large. Now people are fed up, and 1 do not blame them...
...movement that Nader fostered goes by the awkward name of "consumerism." It belongs to an age of discontent that has roiled campuses and ghettos, subjected old certitudes to new doubts and stimulated individual assertiveness. Economist Walter Heller says: "People are much more questioning of authority, including the authority of the marketplace...
...scientific precision. Damaska had said he considers palmists to be his "spiritual cousins," but these people, would never go to a palmist. Or to a private astrologer, for that matter. The first is too unconvincing, the second too expensive and exotic. For a people living in the Moon Age, the cybernetic version of the astrological moon can be just as believable as the sandy satellite visited by an astronaut. Perhaps astrology is the religion of the future. At any rate, the crowd at Grand Central was bisexual, biracial, and bigenerational. And almost everyone was fascinated...