Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found in the thought of Mao... was beyond him [Levenson] as a Jew in exile." The limits of the Jewish experience (limiting the comparisons that Levenson could make from within his own culture), McDonald held, prevented Levenson from responding to the burning political issues of his day, the antiwar movement at home, the Cultural Revolution in China...
Harvard outscored Middlebury 6-0 in the second half with swift movement and excellent ball control. Faught scored twice in the second half, Predun grabbed his second and third goals of the contest, while Jamie Egasti tallied once and Mike Ward, starting his frist game at attack, got his second of the game...
...Hoyt Fuller suggested that "The young writers of the black ghetto have set out in search of a black aesthetic, a system of isolating and evaluating the artistic works of black people which reflect the special character and imperatives of black experiences." This was an important movement which attempted to excoriate the whiteness that blackened out souls and to fashion new ideals and idols of beauty. More importantly, the Movement sought to articulate the fact that Afro-American peoples were beautiful and capable of creating beautiful artifacts...
WHICH BRINGS ME to a long overdue obituary for Sid Vicious. Sid Vicious had the extraordinary good fortune of the very, very few who are born into an artistic movement that mirrors their inner sensibility, whose untrammeled self-expression jibes exactly, as if predestined, with the zeitgeist. He was the quintessential punk, with his chalk-white, emaciated body, his spiked hair and suicide-scars and drunken, fun-loving leer. When he danced the pogo, it became the rage; when he pieced together his clothes with safety pins, that device became the emblem of an entire subculture. He realized that...
...psychiatry is trying to change its slightly tarnished image, it is also changing its attitudes. One of its favorite projects of the 1960s was the community mental-health movement. That plan to bring psychiatric services to the deprived went hand in hand with a consensus among psychiatrists that state hospitals should be emptied of all but the most intractable and dangerous hard-core patients. The hospitals were jammed and poorly funded in most states. The idea was compelling: since psychiatric hospitals could presumably do little more than store patients, those who responded to the new antipsychotic medication could be released...