Word: woodstock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last is probably best, but it can only be temporary. Decades don't really become themselves until about their middle. The '50s died with J.F.K.'s assassination in 1963; the Woodstock Generation did not flower until 1969; Tom Wolfe dubbed the '70s the Me decade...
...protect the status quo declared themselves satisfied with the result. Says the Rev. William Byron, president of Catholic University: "Nothing is being rammed down our throats." Because of antidiscrimination laws, the mandate for a majority of Catholic faculty will be "unenforceable," predicts Father Thomas Reese, a member of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. Vatican officials too say they aim at "flexibility," not demands imposed from on high...
...seat theater continuously runs a movie called Never Give Up: Richard Nixon in the Arena. A hallway gallery displays 30 of the 56 TIME covers on which Nixon appeared. Exhibits lead visitors through the whole saga with photographs and artifacts, including a hollowed-out pumpkin, microfilm and a Woodstock typewriter (the famous items of evidence that nailed down the case against Alger Hiss), and an old woody station wagon like the one Nixon used for his 1950 race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas. A 1952 television set plays the "Checkers" speech, the mawkish little masterpiece that saved Nixon...
...likes of C.C. Rider and Pine Top Boogie. You may not be able to play the tunes when the videotape's over -- it takes a pretty advanced pianist even to follow the Doc's fingering -- but you will have got a graduate course in soul. (Homespun Tapes, Box 694, Woodstock...
...next day. After that, performers strained to put their personal stamp on the anthem: Lou Rawls (languorous jazz), Aretha Franklin (Motown), Al Hirt (Dixieland) and Frank Sinatra (moody lounge lizard). The prize for the most ear-bending version goes to Jimi Hendrix's screeching finale at Woodstock...