Word: cusps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ODDLY PRIMITIVE. The year was the first of a new decade, a cusp of the future. Yet in the U.S. in many ways, the future seemed to have gone temporarily underground. Nineteen seventy had a certain retrograde quality, nostalgic in its styles, oddly primitive in its politics. Women's fashions reverted to an elaboration of the late '40s, the U.S. presidency in some ways to a modified edition of the '50s, and radicalism either to an older silence or to a black-power Bakuninism of the 19th century. The Women's Liberation movement bloomed, ultimately somewhat damaged...