Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than two decades ago, in 1968, America -- and much of the world also -- felt the dislocations of another annus mirabilis...
...that great uprising on the political and cultural left was answered by the rising of George Wallace's army on the right. Wallace, truculent and charismatic in a darkling way, ran a third-party campaign that attracted a large following among blue-collar workers, ethnics, and Middle Americans who felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion...
Puzzled outsiders and furious supporters of law and order often felt they were witness to a heist of the body politic. The immediate causes of upheaval were frequently petty. At Columbia, a protest over the university's affiliation with a war-research institute and its planned encroachment on a ghetto park turned into a six-day occupation of campus buildings. At San Francisco State University, a battle over the suspension of a part-time instructor led to months of strikes, demonstrations and clashes with police. The spokespersons of revolt -- they came from nowhere -- were doctoral candidates in confrontation, who skillfully...
...nudity (15th century Adamite Christians on islands in the Elbe), and drug advocacy (Aldous Huxley extolling the joys of mescaline in 1954). The generation of 1968 -- the first baby boomers -- may have been innocent of historical memory, but that did not bother them. What was important was that they felt new and different and, man, it was us vs. them, young vs. old, hip vs. square, revolutionaries against the bourgeoisie...
...Inauguration neared, Quayle evidently felt more confident. At the start of last week, he agreed to a round of TV, newspaper and magazine interviews. He was assigned by Bush to get his first taste of diplomacy on a visit to Venezuela and two to four other Latin American nations only a couple of weeks after being sworn in. Though Quayle played the traditional role of Just Barely Visible Man through most of the Inaugural ceremonies, he delivered what some advisers called his own Inaugural Address at the concluding gala Saturday night. Quayle said he had come to appreciate Winston Churchill...