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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RECORDING industry continues to sweat over the fortunes of disco, new wave, "power pop" and various other products of the late 1970s, a few of rock's relics, stumbling awkwardly in the background, dodge extinction and rumble...
...army because there one's responsibilities were precisely defined and almost no discretion was given in the choice of means). It is rather that the greater the freedom of choice, the greater the need for culture, that is, for knowledge of the reasons for and the consequences of various actions as recorded...
...formal recognition, newly-elected Prime Minster Tanaka visited China to begin Japan's formal recognition of Peking, and China was voted into the United Nations. Before the end of the decade, the United States had added its formal recognition and American officials were busy at work clearing up the various entanglements of frozen assets to confer most-favored-nation status on China. For Americans the initial exoticism and Pollyannish reporting began to fade after several years as thousands of American traveled to China each year, including several hundred scholars who would remain beyond a quick tourist trip, and several hundred...
More typical of the '70s was the repeated theme of greed and corruption. In one poem, W.H. Auden described the '30s as "a low, dishonest decade." That verdict would apply to numerous episodes in the '70s: the various thuggeries of Watergate, the offenses that led Spiro Agnew to resign, Lockheed's worldwide bribery, the office employment policies of Wayne Hays. One of the more bizarre spin-offs of Watergate was its literary industry; almost everyone, good guys and bad guys alike, the Deans, Haldemans, Jaworskis, Ehrlichmans, Colsons and so on, sat down at tape recorder...
...complex field." Presumably, he is charging that SftP has drawn political conclusions from the field of sociobiology where none are implied. But, in fact, political conclusions of sociobiology are repeatedly articulated by the advocates of this field. In addition to the original texts, one need only read the various popular accounts and interviews with sociobiologists referred to above. For example, E.O. Wilson has stated that in any future society, women will never play as great a role as men in business, politics and Science (NY Times Magazine, Oct. 12, 1975). In response to criticisms of this point, he has subsequently...