Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permanent or transitory is the change remains mysterious. It could be merely temporary calm induced by fatigue or a bit of boredom or even by winter weather. But the change seems more complex than that and therefore more profound. To the extent that an American psychology exists, it has, in nearly all its troubled compartments, undergone numerous and sometimes subtle transformations, as is shown by reports from TIME correspondents on the following pages...
...calm carries little serenity with it, which may be just as well. Instead, it suggests a complex of rather sober fears; of joblessness, of radical violence, of counterviolence from the government. There is a chastened air. A decade of almost amphetamine economic growth culminates in a recession that, although relatively mild in historical terms, has thrown the fear of wolves into the most resolutely buoyant consumer. Simultaneously, even the most heedless slob in a throwaway society begins to understand that his cans and bottles and poisoned gases are piling up in a fatal glut...
...reasons for the calm atmosphere perplex educators and vary from campus to campus. But certainly the May strikes gave students and faculty a nightmarish perception of chaos. Says Albert Hastorf, the Stanford dean of humanities and sciences: "People got scared. In the 'feel-not-think' philosophy they saw their world coming to an end. This fall the point of many lectures has been that thinking is not necessarily an ally of fascism." On the contrary, it is realized here and there that nonthinking and anti-intellectualism are the real allies of totalitarianism. The Kent and Jackson State killings...
...violence of the past few years was, of course, unacceptable, but the student movement has called the nation's attention to some of its weaknesses?a hidebound educational establishment, inequitable draft laws, unrepresentative political procedures, to mention some of the most legitimate targets of protest. Despite the new calm, the turbulence of recent years cannot be written off as a mere episode, a minor aberration. The memory of the violence will endure, but so will the existence of students as a once and future conscience and collective voice of national concern...
That night, a great full moon flooded the federal city, bringing with it a sense of calm and beauty that has hardly been noticed in a decade. In the gilded salons of Georgetown, in the musty hideaways of the Capitol, in the big, comfortable homes of suburban Chevy Chase, they talk about what is not happening in this land: the absence of campus upheaval and ghetto terror. There is agreement only about the national calm...