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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing older. There are proportionately fewer young people than in the 1960s. In that decade, as a result of the post-World War II baby boom, the age group of 14 to 24 expanded by an unprecedented 13 million, or 52%. Youth was bound to make more of a stir on the basis of numbers alone. In the 1970s, however, this age group will increase by only some 4.3 million, while in the 1980s it will decline. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the median age of Americans may rise from 28.0 in 1970 to as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Graying of America | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...last thing most liberal Democrats want, when things are going so nicely, is to stir up old passions by impeaching President Nixon. The Watergate hearings, they believe, will bring the good liberals back to power, and put an end once and for all to the Nixonian onslaught of fascism. At the same time, American withdrawal from Indochina will end once and for all the wave of liberal and radical protest that made Nixon, like Diem before him, believe repressive methods necessary. So much for the profit Democrats hope to make off of this national 'tragedy.' When the Republican Party...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Liberal Newspeak and the Indochina War | 7/20/1973 | See Source »

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans, aim high in hope and work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Chicago 21 | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...Philipsborn, vice president of Chase Manhattan's European headquarters, promptly remarked that the apparent decision to hold off action after hinting that it was imminent seemed "more harmful than if the Government had done nothing at all." That was an ominous foretaste of the emotions that Nixon will stir if this week he dashes the hopes for action that he has aroused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Nixon's Other Crisis: The Shrinking Dollar | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

Representing her past is a gaunt, tortured relic of the concentration camp (Richard Cragun) who periodically surfaces to stir her nightmare visions. Just as the adagio tails off in an eerie diminuendo, Traces ends with the anguish of the woman left unresolved. But the role is enacted to near perfection by Marcia Haydée, surely the finest dancing actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Stars of Stuttgart | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

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