Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they find wrong with West Germany. University professors called on him to explain, and Der Stern's Editor in Chief Henri Nannen hounded him to resign. The irony was that Nannen himself was accused of having been a strong follower of Hitler during the Nazi period...
...those who were old enough to job-hunt then, the Depression '30s were a time nobody loved. But for young Americans today, the period has become a nostalgic treasure trove. Stores from coast to coast are advertising ruffles and the Harlow look; the late show provides a touchstone by rerunning the movie classics; and Bonnie and Clyde is mandatory in all extracurricular undergraduate courses. But as is often the case with trends, artists have been well in the vanguard of popular taste, and some of the most gifted have been on a '30s kick for years (see color...
...Sexy. Wisconsin's Warrington Colescott, 47, who knew the period as a teenager, explored the subject in his Dillinger series, a group of lithographs and color intaglios in his recent one-man show this February at the Milwaukee Art Center. To California-born Colescott, the '30s, for all the hard times, had "a kind of kinship and romance." He sees Bank Robber John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1, as the folk hero of the decade, the outlaw at odds with society, who also personified "the general environment of violence that is still very much with...
...unexpected byproduct of experiments to learn something about the effects of prolonged space travel upon astronauts, who will soon be spending months in orbit under conditions of weightlessness, and exploring the moon, which has only one-sixth of earth's gravity. Reduced gravity over so long a period of time, space scientists fear, may produce effects that did not emerge during the relatively short manned space flights made to date...
Underground Doctrine. Strachey and Keynes were leaders of the Cambridge contingent of that select literary circle, the Bloomsbury group. Its members' intellectual attainments were beyond dispute, but a central preoccupation, suggests Rees, was homosexuality. Nor was it confined to this group. At both Oxford and Cambridge in the period between the World Wars, writes Rees, "homosexuality, among undergraduates and dons with pretensions to culture and a taste for the arts, was at once a fashion, a doctrine and a way of life." It also reached well beyond the university. Since Oxford and Cambridge produced the governing classes of Britain...