AUGUST 09, 2019Rewind
“Five long years of torturous negotiation came to a dramatic end last
week as representatives of the U.S., Great Britain and Russia initialed
a limited test-ban agreement,” Newsweek reported of the long-sought treaty to
de-escalate the race for nuclear weaponry. The ban “committed the world’s three
major nuclear powers to halt all tests in the atmosphere, underwater and in
outer space.” A fearful world in the “glacial grasp of the cold war” rejoiced at the
agreement, but it turned to be far less of a “turning point” than hoped.1977
“Le jazz is hot,” Newsweek remarked of
the musical genre’s 1970s rebirth.
“Eclipsed by rock during the ’60s,” jazz
was back with “album sales up, clubs
thriving and concerts ‘standing room
only.’” With an audience “freshly
defected from rock,” the undercurrents
of culture are ever-changing.1963
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1993
“In an orgy of blatant racism,” America
“virtually cut off immigration,” Newsweek
said about the 1920s. And despite it
“ranking with corn and cars as a mainstay
of American economic growth,” 1990s
Americans were “again asking fundamental
questions about the desirability of
accepting so many newcomers”—a
recurring policy question.