Sixties

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Sixties pl (plural only)

  1. The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)
    • 1981, Channels of Communications‎, page 22:
      Occasionally this was a direct result of network attitudes — as in the fifties with integration, the sixties with Vietnam, or the seventies with Watergate.
    • 2016, Oliver Gruner, Screening the Sixties‎, →ISBN, page 179:
      Both Burnham and the president were middle-aged baby boomers with an investment in their Sixties youth
    • 2017
      When asked what the Sixties were all about, most people reply: peace, love, happiness.
    • 2019
      Counterculture expert James Riley delves into the darkness of the Sixties to sort fact from psychedelic fiction.
  2. (US) A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.
    • 1999, Andrew E. Hunt, “Introduction”, in The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War‎, →ISBN, page 1:
      The 1960s and the first half of the 1970s—an era known as "the sixties" to most observers—has perhaps generated more mythology than any other period in American history.
    • 2011, Rob Kirkpatrick, 1969: The Year Everything Changed‎, page xvii:
      But the sixties no more ended in 1969 than they began in 1960.
    • 2013, James J. Farrell, The Spirit of the Sixties‎, page 17:
      It is relatively easy to choose some event (Kent State, Altamont, Watergate, and the fall of Saigon are favorites) as the end of the Sixties

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