Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EASY RIDER is a major movie that follows two youths on their search for where it's at. Letting townspeople "rap" at will and drawing a top performance from Newcomer Jack Nicholson, Director-Actor Dennis Hopper has created a classic...
THERE are some weeks when a single event clearly dominates the news, and others when major stories seem to crowd in from all sides, each one competing for attention. This was the week of Apollo 12's blast-off for man's second moon landing, of yet another massive outpouring of sentiment over Viet Nam. TIME deals with them both. Yet as the days went by, it became increasingly clear that the biggest, most intriguing news was the Nixon Administration's mounting counteroffensive against dissent in the U.S. The speech attacking the television networks by Vice President...
Rhetoric aside, Agnew did touch on a major phenomenon. It is the strange, pervasive love-hate relationship that Americans seem to have with TV-the force that entertains them, unifies them by making them simultaneous witnesses to great events, and yet also brings them words and images they resent. Most often, of course, they are words and images beyond the control of the distant and suspect networks; they are the inevitable result of social upheaval, of change, or war. But in challenging the qualifications and motives of the TV news commentators and producers, Agnew brought to the surface questions that...
Blaine offered two major explanations for the dropouts desire to take risks. The first was the affluence of American society: "Young people brought up in a world where everything has come easily to them begin to long for challenge and they cast about for risks to take . . . ." The other came right from Freud: hippies act like "infants and children [who] demand instant gratification . . . demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness." They are immature people, for "if maturity comes, it brings with it the capacity to tolerate some present pain in order to achieve a greater pleasure at some later...
...creation of the new Advisory Committee on Community Affairs implements a major recommendation of the now-defunct Committee on the University and the City, which urged last December that Harvard create a group "to provide a sounding board for evaluating new proposals and a mechanism whereby the various parts of the University can convey their concern" to University officials...