Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Explosive Exodus. If their polemics sounded curiously off-key in the never-had-it-so-good society, the Young Angries at least helped ventilate British complacency and restore some of the dynamics that had gone out of the welfare state. A later wave of novelists and starkly realistic films bitterly mocked the opportunism and intellectual dishonesty of society as they saw it. Last year, for the first time since Pope and Swift peppered the 18th century Establishment with choleric wit, no-holds-barred political satire found a big, avid audience in theaters, nightclubs and newspaper columns. Even on BBC television...
Stasera, a new Milan daily, closed shortly after Mattei died. One of Milan's morning papers cut editorial salaries by 20%, fired part of the staff, and canceled plans for an afternoon edition. An economy wave swept over Milan's Il Giorno, Italy's fourth largest daily. Two Rome papers began a steady descent toward oblivion...
...Yamasaki's career came to him in 1951. He and two S. H. & G. colleagues had formed a firm of their own, and they got a commission to do the Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Air Terminal - a work that was to set the standard for a wave of airport buildings by top architects all over the U.S. Yamasaki decided that the terminal should be a great entrance, a reception center...
Evtushenko is considered the idol of Russian youth and the intellectual leader of the "new wave" of poets and artists who have come into prominence since the losening of the ties on cultural growth and expression in the Soviet Union...
Today few writers can follow the scientists into their increasingly complicated jungles, and what they find does not support good storytelling. Science fiction will have to take a breather until neutrinos, wave mechanics and information theory grow familiar enough to be clothed in human terms...