Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest wave to hit the beach is folk rock. It combines the big beat with folk themes of unsentimental love and social protest. Its king: Bob Dylan, who leaves behind the straight-haired purists of folk as he takes up electric guitar. He and his imitators are bringing the message right into the front seat of the convertible, although it is still not strong enough to drown out the we're-not-too-young-to-get-married gang...
...BABE (Atco). Riding the folk-pop wave are Sonny and Chér, a husband and wife with Siamese-twin voices that make it hard to tell who's the boy and who's the girl, and even whether one or both are singing. They muse at the quaint notions of elders, who think that people who spend their allowances before they get them won't be able to make a go of marriage...
...that the whole gas of a package had not been dreamed up in the pop-happy U.S. but in austere old England. As a matter of fact, the package had been tied up and delivered by Mary Quant, who at 31 is the dean of Britain's new-wave designers. Says she: "The music and the new clothes are inseparable...
Flattened by wave after wave of inflation and devaluation, many French men have developed a peasantlike distrust of stocks, bonds or paper money−and an earthy passion for material goods. These fears and desires are being profitably exploited by two French businessmen who are giving their country men something as good as gold (which Frenchmen still hoard to the extent of $5 billion) to sink their savings into. The entrepreneurs' basic idea: buy your own railroad...
...civil rights. What caused the disorders? There were as many explanations as" there were points of view. In Los Angeles, "the long, hot summer" was blamed -as it was in Harlem last year-and not without reason: the rioting broke out on the fourth day of an unusual heat wave in which Angelenos sweltered in humid 90°-to-100° temperatures night and day. A deeper source of irritation for urban Negroes is their isolation and poverty in a land of conspicuous plenty. Undeniably, also, there is a "lack of communication" between whites and blacks, between responsible Negroes...