Sixties
See also: sixties
English
Alternative forms
- sixties
Noun
Sixties pl (plural only)
- 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.
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- (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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Synonyms
- 1960s, '60s, 60s