Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McLuhan's "global village," nor can the sequential thought patterns of three millennia be totally dissolved in a burst of electronic energy, however it is harnessed. With the sweeping generalization that delights his followers but irks so many anti-McLuhanians, he compares present times with the late medieval era, when tribal thought was giving way to print-processed "linear" thought, and finds in both the medieval theme of the Dance of Death and today's Theater of the Absurd a similar fear of changing technology. Says he: "Both represent a common failure: the attempt...
...sense of what life was like for the British between and during the two big wars, he will be better off turning to fiction than to journalism. Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy will serve for a start. For a finish, he can wrap up the whole era with Anthony Powell's incalculably brilliant series, The Music of Time. In The Soldier's Art, the eighth novel in this marathon enterprise,* Powell, now 61, brings his narrator hero, Nick Jenkins, into his second year of World War II. Jenkins carries on with his task of scoring...
...cameras and a labyrinth of microphones, and tell the nation that an organization to which he was committed had been perpetrating a grandiose, 15-year lie. Today, this congenial -- if somewhat idealistic -- young man is talking about the opportunity the whole affair may have provided for a new era in national student involvement...
...Asians, the socialism of leaders such as Nyerere amounts to nothing more than an attack on their privileges. They protest that they should not be made scapegoats, that their small shops and other businesses were the only occupational outlet allowed them by the British in the colonial era. Without making some economic concessions, however, the Asians in East Africa cannot long survive. Some have started to sell their businesses at cost, and many are filing into steamship and airline offices to book passage for elsewhere...
Psychedelic central for the U.S. right now is a half-mile stretch along San Francisco's Haight Street, which has 27 shops catering to the needs of hippies and trippies. One of the earliest, simply called the Psychedelic Shop, opened in the psychedelic Paleozoic era: in January 1965; the latest, barely six months old, calls itself The Phoenix. Their hottest items: incense, cigarette papers and bells. The bells are to hear, naturally, and the incense to sniff. And the cigarette papers? "Well," admits bearded Owner Robert Stubbs, 26, "we have sold an awful lot of papers...