Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year just past certainly did not lack individuals who stood out in many situations-Viet Nam's war, the turbulence in China, the changes in the Communist camps and in the Western alliance, the fitful attempts to build the Great Society in the U.S., the continuing adventure in space. As usual, our readers joined in the Man of the Year search; their nominations were led by the late Walt Disney and ranged in altitude from God to the devil. Yet no single earthly figure, so it seemed to the editors, bestrode the year as did the restless, questing young...
Early & Earnest. The young have already staked out their own minisociety, a congruent culture that has both alarmed their elders and, stylistically at least, left an irresistible impression on them. No Western metropolis today lacks a discotheque or espresso joint, a Mod boutique or a Carnaby shop. No transistor is immune from rock 'n' roll, no highway spared the stutter of Hondas. There are few Main Streets in the world that do not echo to the clop of granny boots, and many are the grannies who now wear them. What started out as distinctively youthful sartorial revolt-drainpipe...
...fear that they will ever lack material comforts for their own part, the young tend to dismiss as superficial and irrelevant their elders' success-oriented lives. "You waited," sniffs a young Californian. "We won't." Nonetheless, today's youth appears more deeply committed to the fundamental Western ethos-decency, tolerance, brotherhood-than
...ground, another 331 yds. on pass receptions. Tight End Max McGee is 34 and has caught only three passes all year, but one of them set up the game-winning touchdown when the Packers beat the Baltimore Colts three weeks ago to clinch the N.F.L.'s Western Division championship. Halfback Paul Hornung, 30, and painfully burdened by a pinched nerve in his neck, is still, by the consensus of his fellow pros, "the greatest money player in the game." And Quarterback Bart Starr, at 32, is the No. 1 passer in the N.F.L. (156 completions in 251 attempts...
...earn tuition, began full-time work after graduation as a Bell Laboratories researcher, still holds six patents for his work on telephone circuits. He later went to the Long Lines Department, dealt with local problems as chief engineer for Illinois Bell Telephone, got manufacturing experience as president of Western Electric, and learned finance and administration as a vice president, vice chairman and finally president of the parent company...