Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps this trend shows a growing conviction among Americans that costly goods retain real value, while mere money depreciates. More likely it indicates that Americans are also emulating the wise and worldly Europeans, buying fewer goods, but goods that have more class and durability. Jay Plotkin, vice president of Craig's ready-to-wear chain in Houston, argues: "People are looking for more permanence in their selections, not just faddish clothes. Retailers call this 'investment dressing...
...trend coincides with a current journalistic emphasis, even in the respectables, on what is interesting, against what is important. (The important may make a comeback in news interest but at the moment lacks either the urgency of danger or the stimulus of hope.) Recognizing this shift, politicians constantly conduct polls about their image and resist too much identity with substance. So watch Jerry Brown proving how zealous he is at implementing the Proposition 13 he fought. Note Jimmy Carter, falling in the ratings but still registering high for likability...
Reversing the trend of recent years, the hawks now have control. Led by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and a hard-line group from Congress, they convinced Carter that he had to respond to the Soviets forcefully and with more than words. Russia's threatening energy shortage, they argued, combined with its growing dependence on American technology, meant that a ban on certain exports could win political concessions...
...perfect medium in their marriages. The most obvious sign of conflict can be seen in the startlingly low figures for the number of babies which have been born to women of the late '60s generation. There have been only seven births in the Radcliffe Class of '68, and this trend seems to be continuing. Since women and men are not yet sure how to balance careers and children, they have done the obvious, which is, for the meantime, to stop having children. There have been enough articles written on the question of children, and modern day women to fill...
...time, the Nixon court sobriquet seemed apt. From 1969 to 1971, four Nixon appointees joined the court-Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell-and many observers expected them to reverse the trend set by the liberal Warren Court in the 1950s and '60s. Judicially activist, the Warren Court had frequently extended constitutional guarantees of free speech, equal protection and due process to safeguard individual rights, which usually meant those of the poor, minorities and criminal defendants. With the arrival of the Nixon appointees, the court was less concerned with the rights...