Play with a Tiger | Compare and Contrast

Late 1950s–Early 1960s: The counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, a major component of which will be devoted to ecological concerns, are getting their start.

Today: Global warming, pollution, dwindling marine life and fossil fuel supplies, and use of pesticides and hormones in food husbandry are of concern to many.

Late 1950s–Early 1960s: Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique, one of the first books of a new feminist movement that will flourish in the 1970s, is published in 1963.

Today: Statistically,...

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