Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EASY RIDER. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper ride their motorcycles cross-country looking for the true meaning of America. The film (directed by Hopper, produced by Fonda and co-authored by Terry Southern) is by turns sensitive and embarrassing-at its best when it shows with compassion the places and...
It is, in short, the year of ecology, a word derived from the Greek oikos, meaning "house." In modern usage, ecology is the study of nature's house or environment, including man's complex dependence on a bewildering variety of other creatures and life processes.
"Somebody," George Bernard Shaw once said, "must take the Garden of Eden in hand and weed it properly." Obviously, the man that Shaw had in mind for the job was himself. In Back to Methuselah, his five-play cycle completed in 1921, he tried to settle once and for all...
Today's young businessman is a member of the committed generation who insists on meaning and a sense of social responsibility in both his job and his life. Martin Gerstel, 27, a founder of Alza Corp., a California pharmaceutical research firm, argues: "It is not good enough any more...
Transforming Lawrence Durrell's massively complex Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Cled) into a single coherent film is an impossible task. Obviously. Four full-length films could hardly unravel the interlocking time structure and convoluted personal relationships in the four separate but interrelated novels. Thus 20th Century-Fox...