Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Walter Washington in the violence following Martin Luther King's assassination. In November, Vance negotiated a peaceful settlement of the Cyprus crisis; in February he soothed irate South Koreans who wished to retaliate when a North Korean commando squad attempted to assassinate President Chung Hee Park just two days before the seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo...
Love has fled the Hashbury. Although antidraft hipsters recently held an amorous assembly knee-deep in a pool by city hall, love has been replaced by cynical commercialism, loneliness and fear, sporadic brutality and growing militance. Parks Superintendent Frank Foehr calls the current crop of flower children "a different element-young hoodlums." Once they loved blossoms; now, Foehr says, they come to Golden Gate Park to "put garbage in Albert Lake and break the rhododendrons." Infected communal needles boost the already soaring viral-hepatitis rate. Free stores and communal kitchens are not in evidence; now the tourist is lured...
...their black hats and beards, linked arms, danced and sang with rugged paratroopers wearing red berets and toting Uzi submachine guns. In the streets of Jerusalem, thousands of young sabras frolicked away the day and night to the hypnotic strains of the hora, then tumbled exhausted onto sidewalks and park grass to sleep. As the highlight of the biggest military parade in Israel's history, marking its 20th year as a nation, 30 Israeli jet fighters flashed across the blue heavens to form a giant, glistening Star of David...
...photograph of a Northern European city street scene taken around 1900 shows how decisively art nouveau (or its German version, Jugendstil) permeated the Mauve Decade. As the first art style since the Industrial Revolution to integrate every phase of design, its florid, free-flowing lines ornamented buildings and posters, park benches and Metro stations, Tiffany glass and Liberty silks. Yet few styles have had a shorter life. It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914. With the advent of the machined precision of the 1920s Bauhaus modernism, handcrafted art nouveau became an object...
...immediate demand is the release of the one student arrested at the park, Fred Wilson, who might as well be named John Everyman, because nobody knows him. To reciprocate for Fred's detention Dean Coleman is held hostage...