Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gerontocratic order is undermined by a feeling that the older generation has disgraced itself (deauthorization). The scandal of racial discrimination, for example, deauthorized the older generation in the early sixties and brought into existence the New Left. The debacle in Vietnam, I suspect, more significantly enforced deauthorization in every region of the country...
...without a single piece of legislation or reform to call their own. Feuer invented much of this analysis in response to current student radicalism and applied it to history retrospectively, but his case is nevertheless well argued. When he applied his categories of student revolt to the American New Left, they led, a bit too easily, to harshly negative conclusions...
With 20 seconds to go and Los Angeles ahead, 88-86, Emmette Bryant sank a free throw to bring the Celts within victory range. Harried by a full-court press, the Lakers bobbled the ball over to the Celts and Bill Russell called time with seven seconds left on the Garden clock...
...chosen before it had reached the apex of its stardom and therefore before it became financially unfeasible. Saturday night, Jubilarians enjoyed a floating party, complete with band and liquid mixer, aboard a huge pleasure cruiser. Few participants remembers, or care, that for a full hour the boat never left the dock because it failed to pass Coast Guard inspection, and the "authorities" wouldn't release the floating bacchanal...
Perhaps this description may sound, to some, mawkishly sentimental or overly enthusiastic. But Jubilee is a legacy left to freshmen only. It has no analogies in upperclass life. To an envious upperclassman, it appears to be the stuff of which good times--and good memories...