Word: cusps
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Keyes' dilemma should be familiar, even to those who consider themselves radicals. At a certain point we are all going to have to face a moment of cusp when we will finally have to decide which side we are on, and the decision is going to be irretrievable. Keyes says, "you can ignore the truth until something blows, but when it blows you have to face up to it. Or else walk away whistling." If we aren't going to walk away whistling, we have to stand up to the decision...
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...