Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great American baby boom is over. The explosive population surge that added some 40 million citizens to the U.S. in the 15 years after V-J day has subsided and may well continue to decline. The trend, only now showing up with any certainty on demographers' charts, is unlikely to make headlines; yet it speaks meaningfully to the nation's spiritual and material wellbeing, today and for years to come...
...current downturn, nonetheless, is consistent with history, reflecting a trend going all the way back to the founding of the Republic. With the exception of the post-World War II years, in fact, the American birth rate has always been on the way down, an anomaly explained by the heroic childbearing habits of the founding mothers, who averaged 8.3 children each. The '40s and the '50s, according to the demographers, were simply an upward jiggle on the downward line...
...opposite page), an example of World War I futurism that abstracts the warring motion of an ironclad railway car into shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration No. 3 by another futurist, Giacomo Balla, and dated 1912, is clearly a harbinger...
...galleries closed down about midnight, those of the opening-night travelers with sufficient stamina dashed up Fifth Avenue to the Jewish Museum to catch the tail end of yet another opening. There, 42 young U.S. and British sculptors launched what may be a new art movement. The new trend is all bare pipe and unadorned steel, and it trumpets "less is more" as its philosophical basis. Its name: Minimal...
...population is more or less stable. We're having an increase every year. We're not keeping pace. Maybe we can turn the trend around. Whether its money or manpower or whatever. We're trying to find out how we can do the job better. That's why we need the survey...