Word: 60s
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...WOULD HAVE BEEN so much easier to write about the '60s...
...shortcomings, legitimized nudity on stage, previously only experimented with in partial or shrouded conditions to insure standards of "redeeming artistic value." Television asserted itself, legitimately or not, in our living rooms, raising a generation on a steady diet of situation comedy, game show and soap opera. It was the '60s generation which, at decade's end, gathered its countercultural offshoots at the three-day Woodstock "celebration," a rock festival that has been symbolically praised or blamed for everything right, or wrong, with the 1960s...
...most of us have not hesitated to label the '50s "silent" or "boring," nor are we likely to think twice about "mediocre" and "depressing" as apt terms to sum up the '70s. Certainly the past decade can claim as many lifestyle innovations and instances of artistic creativity as the '60s, probably more, but they seemed less radical, less revolutionary and tradition-shattering than their predecessors. Perhaps they were: painting, for instance, could not move much farther toward abstraction than the abstract expressionists had already taken it, nor could it become more impersonal or starkly realistic than the work...
DIED. Rudi Dutschke, 39, firebrand champion of West German student radicalism in the '60s, and better known as Red Rudi; on suffering a seizure and drowning in a bathtub; in Arhus, Denmark...
American Graffiti (1973). A band of young stars led by Director George Lucas creates a moving and funny portrait of high school life in the early '60s...