Cultural Knowledge & Perspectives Crossword
Across
- 1. Word on many protest signs of the 1960s and beyond.
- 3. What the youth of the ’60s called for — sometimes in music form.
- 6. Everyone’s entitled to one — especially online.
- 9. The word on every lip in the 1970s — sexual, social, and personal.
- 13. The mental shortcut society keeps unlearning.
- 14. What every generation believes the next one is losing.
- 16. The cultural mirror that never stands still.
- 18. Movement that redefined women’s voices in the 1970s.
- 21. The household companion before television ruled the room.
- 24. The invisible language everyone speaks differently each decade.
- 25. Once considered a strength, now sometimes seen as insincerity.
- 27. The traditional title for the family’s male provider.
- 28. The promise every invention makes.
- 29. What movements, artists, and citizens have always fought to keep.
- 30. Common term for a woman managing domestic life in the 1950s.
Down
- 2. The ideal societies keep chasing.
- 4. The window to the world in the 1960s living room.
- 5. The dream that filled shopping malls and emptiness alike.
- 7. Where families once gathered nightly before screens replaced conversation.
- 8. Once praised as virtue, now debated as restriction.
- 10. What once meant duty, now often tied to identity.
- 11. A mirror ball, a dance floor, and a whole attitude.
- 12. The act that reshaped politics, music, and art.
- 15. What cultures hold onto when the future feels uncertain.
- 17. Once seen as noble, later debated as outdated.
- 19. The invention that ended waiting — and privacy.
- 20. Symbol of rebellion, innovation, and idealism.
- 22. What defined “good upbringing” in the mid-20th century.
- 23. The force that promised simplicity but delivered complexity.
- 26. Humanity’s final frontier — and the 1960s dream.