Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better seems to be the motto in art these days. Sculptors are adding paint to metals and incorporating everything from old divans to truncated taxis as props for their pop works; painters are bulging their canvases out into space to challenge the sculptors. Now the mixed-media trend seems to have struck the world of prints. Scorned are such traditional tools as the lithographer's stone and crayon, the engraver's burin, the woodcutter's gouge; in are Plexiglas and acetate, molded plastic and all kinds of electric lighting...
...China but also at obliterating China's own preCommunist past. Nor was that all. "We are not only stirring up a revolutionary storm in China," they cried, "we shall spread it over the whole world." As for anyone who dared to oppose the new trend, the Guards pledged to "reform him, impose dictatorship on him, and fight him until our bayonets are stained with blood...
...wholly to the moneyed gentry. Young people are now more involved than ever-on both sides of the footlights. In the past 16 years, the quality and quantity of American singers have risen sharply-though many still have to go to Europe to serve their apprenticeship. But even that trend is beginning to reverse itself as Dallas, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Boston and Chicago develop their own troupes, though they still continue to import the finest singers from the international circuit. In 1950, for example, there were 200 opera companies in the U.S.; today there are more than 700-amateur...
...most large cities, the newspaper trend is toward fewer competitive dailies; mergers are the order of the day. Last week in Chattanooga, Tenn., competition made a comeback. A quasi merger ended, and the city suddenly had two new papers. The morning Times and the afternoon News-Free Press parted after 24 years of joint operation. Once they split, the Times promptly began to publish the afternoon Post, while the Free Press started to put out a Sunday edition...
...entry into the city-building field reinforces a major trend of the '60s. By one recent count, there are now no fewer than 25 such "new towns" being built across the U.S. Humble Oil, largest U.S. subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), is building a new town for 140,000 people near Houston...