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Sixties en · NOUN

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1. (plural, plural-only) The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)
   • Counterculture expert James Riley delves into the darkness of the Sixties to sort fact from psychedelic fiction. 2019 https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/did-the-sixties-dream-die-in-1969
   • Both Burnham and the president were middle-aged baby boomers with an investment in their Sixties youth[…] 2016, Oliver Gruner, Screening the Sixties, →ISBN, page 179:
   • Occasionally this was a direct result of network attitudes — as in the fifties with integration, the sixties with Vietnam, or the seventies with Watergate. 1981, Channels of Communications, page 22:
   • 2017 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/sixties-decade-was-it-good-sexual-revolution-swinging-london-hippies-culture-music-art-germaine-a7946506.html When asked what the Sixties were all about, most people reply: peace, love, happiness.
2. (US, plural, plural-only) A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.
   • 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. 1999, Andrew E. Hunt, “Introduction”, in The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, →ISBN, page 1:
   • 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[…] 2013, James J. Farrell, The Spirit of the Sixties, page 17:
   • But the sixties no more ended in 1969 than they began in 1960. 2011, Rob Kirkpatrick, 1969: The Year Everything Changed, page xvii:

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'60s · 1960s · 60s