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Dates: during 1960-1969
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An enervated age, insecure from the recent death of God and the apparent dissolution of the moral universe, can ill afford to lose the concept of art as total resistance. Who else will defy the helpless clutching at makeshift gods by a society desperately in search of meaning? So you...

Author: By James P. Frosch, | Title: From the Shelf The Advocate | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Tho repeated the N.L.F.'s rather vague plan for a temporary coalition government composed of "each social class" in South Viet Nam and each distinct political tendency. During the interim before elections, Tho told Schecter, no party should be "in a position to exert pressure on the population and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Nixon's Timetable | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

(4 of 13) understand and to an extent gratify the romantics' cry for meaning. How the American romantics meet their inevitable frustrations, how they channel their remarkable energy will be a crucial event of the 1970s.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The '60s to The 70s: Dissent and Discovery | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Only a few articles hint at the meaning of female liberation. Betsy Warrior, in "Man as an Obsolete Life Form." by condemning man (not the species) for his aggressive, destructive tendencies, implies that the "female principle" (peacefulness, non-competitiveness) is what she values. But her vehement put-down of men...

Author: By Spencie Love, | Title: Women Liberation Lit | 12/16/1969 | See Source »

This book, laid in Ireland at the start of World War II, tells of a 17-year-old. Everylad who feels himself a failure and is at odds with his father and siblings. The work possesses authenticity and humor; the writing is literate and well above average. The weaker portions...

Author: By Caldwell Ticomb, | Title: Satan and Sex in School: A Worldwide Plot | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

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