Minnechaug Regional High School - Falcon Yearbook (Wilbraham, MA)

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16 The seventies. Radically different from the sixties, but remarkably the same, nonetheless. The decade has had its share of world events and crises, but it has still maintained the human considerations of the previous decade. Although some claim that the seventies is a decade without a person- ality, the seventies is rather a development away from the chaos of the sixties toward the positive social development of the future. The seventies have an identity, that is not as readily apparent as that of previous decades, but is just as real. The people of the seventies have endured the break- ing of a president, the rigors of a foreign war, and the growth of terrorism with the pragmitism that typifies the decade. The children of the decade reflect this, trading the wild activism and rebellion of the sixties for a more conservative attitude toward politics and change. Indicative of this change is the recent rash of Proposition 13 style proposals and the active effort toward non-violence among protest groups. While open rebellion is still present, as in the threatened secession of Nantucket and Martha ' s Vineyard, the real battles have been fought in the courts and legisla- tures, as opposed to the city streets and college campuses of the sixties. a V11U Btt KM irTijfiTiiiKiaiii

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Discipline • Sex Education Back to Basics • Penmanship Class • IQ Debate • Race Quotas • ROTC Program