Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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His cult knows where to find him: playing fringe characters in fringe features like Videodrome and, just a couple of months ago, portraying a man succumbing to the twin addictions of ambition and drugs in The Boost. His Oscar nomination was for Salvador, a feverish performance of Yanqui journalism confronting...
Both students and professors would prefer not to have lotteries, and increasing course offerings is clearly the best answer to this problem in the long run. But if professors need to limit enrollment, they should only be allowed to do so by lottery. Juniors as a class were dismissed from...
A. The '80s are wilder than the '60s. Rock music is much wilder. Just think how tame the Beatles' music is today: it's almost Muzak. And the sexual revolution -- in the mid-'60s the idea of a coed dorm, putting those nubile young things and these young men in...
A. The '70s were almost over when I called it the Me decade. I don't deal in predictions, but you appeal to my vanity, so I'll talk about it anyway. I think that in the '90s we'll probably see a good bit of relearning, even though it...
The defiantly individualist novelist-journalist-social commentator, whose dissection of our contemporary culture has won comparisons with Dickens and Balzac, looks ahead to the '90s. Instead of the rampant greed of the waning decade, he foresees a slowing of the sexual revolution, a reviving interest in religion and a retreat...