Word: beens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"There has been a ten-year lull since the advances of the 1960s and the tide is going out," Chisolm said.
The 1960s began with the violent death of a president and ended with the near-terminal illness of an entire political system. Owing to the coming of age of the "baby boom" of the postwar, era, it would have been a turbulent decade at best--young persons have boundless energy...
Not since the early decades of this century had there been such sweeping and lasting changes in the social order as in the 1960s. The 1930s was by comparison a period of merely institutional change--political power was to a degree redistributed, new public policies were adopted, but the essential...
The 1960s' lasting impact was on what many people, especially better-off people, believed. "Middle-class morality" had been assaulted many times before in our history, but rarely with such ferocity or along so broad a front. The virtues of individuality, of self-liberation, of "authenticity" in human relations were...
Dense, dark and dusty hodgepodges of galactic gas and dust where, quite literally, there is nothing to see were examined by means of the invisible radiation they emit. Radio and infrared techniques now enable us to "listen" to huge interstellar clouds slowly contracting to form stars. Thus, we are now...