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In the years' 60 we have again some two economic expansion to the boom of the postwar period. In this period the great cities of the north Italy widened their industries recalling great quantities of work force coming from other Italian regions, in the cities the great outskirtses rise formed from great buildings, messily built, without green spaces. The people who transferred to the north originated from the countries of the south and the center Italy left the agricultural jobs for the salary that the factories assured them. The comfort was increased in all the social classes and some could afford the famous "500" or " Lambretta." In a lot of houses appeared for the first time refrigerator, television and washer. The holidays were still a luxury and the people it amused attending the cafes, the public places and the cinemas. Children, amused instead making games to the open with ball, rope and making the game of the bell and the hide-and-seek. To the elementary schools he went with the apron and with the bow on the collar and every class had only one teacher for all the subjects, while for the religious education the priest came to school. At the end of the years' 60 were born for the first time in the industrialized countries the student movements. The boys started to rebel at house and school to the old way of thinking of the adults, to their moralism, to the rigor and the insensibility towards the juvenile world. Some scholastic institutes were occupied for protest and in the families the crashes started among new and old generations, the young people started to dress themselves in way anticonvenzionale; also the males used to bring the long hair and all they called the adults" old fogey." In these years he also started to speak of female emancipation and of sexual liberty, above all among the young people that professed the free love. In a lot of universities the student protests provoked hard reactions in the public opinion and during the demonstrations in the most greater European and American cities they occurred serious clashes between demonstrators and police. Despite the strong rebellions the boys of the epoch were primarily declared lovers of the peace, they professed " not-violence" and they were pronounced free from the ethical and moralistic impositions proper of the preceding generations.
In scientific and technological field the years' 60 saw a notable development that manifested with the introduction of the chains of assemblage in the factories with the invention of new appliances and in the telecomunications. The man arrived on the moon and the event was followed live by all the TVs of the world. The increase of the spatial consignments brought to the evolution of new technologies and it was in that years that all over the world they started him to use the biros instead of the stilografiches that you are been experimented by the same astronauts. In cinema circle, Italy can count on very busy and skilled directors in to reconstruct aspects of the Italian society of the postwar period. Some of them have had world fame and their films today are still a point of reference for the actual cinema. A realistic picture of the rich Roman middle class of the years' 60 have been reproduced in the film" You sweet life", of Fred Fellini. Other important authors have been: Antonioni, De Sica, Leone, Monicelli, Risi, Petri and Pontecorvo. A kind of film in fashion in that years in Italy was "spaghetti Western" in which the searches of the pioneers were represented in 800 in America.
In the first years' 70 the economic boom suffered an arrest, the price of the oil skyrocketed, together with the prices of the other first subjects determining an inflationary crisis and therefore the inconsiderate increase of the prices of consumption. A lot of industries entered in crisis and was founded for the workers the box integration. The increase of the price of the gasoline and the necessity to reduce the consumption brought the government to decide to prevent the use of the autos in the holidays in the whole national territory for one time period that was denominated" Austerity." For these motives all and particularly the young people were forced to remain in their city and stimulated means of locomotion as the bicycle and the cars of police. Every family possessed an automobile and many appliances. The television had replaced partly the cinema that knew moments of crisis. The exodus from the countries in the cities was exhausted and were depopulated great zones of central and southern Italy also determining the crisis of the agriculture that became, of year in year, a productive sector less and less and rarely considered in political and economic circle.
The student movements of the preceding years brought to reforms in the scholastic circle and they improved the relationships between teachers and students. The women started to occupy places of responsibility in economic and political circle and the relationships inside the families they changed for the young people that always got greater liberties. The economic comfort had improved the life of everybody and the Italian society became purely “consumistica”. The applications of the technology increased, they spread the calculators and the electronics made more and more giant footsteps with the invention of small components. In the TV the color and the satellites arrived allowing to communicate with the most lost places of the world. The air traffic increased very much and was built an airplane momentary supersonic called" Concorde" for the connection among Paris and New York only in four hours. In these years, in the countries more developed was became to have a particular attention for the environment, the nature and its pollution. The study of the ecology was sustained by important world associations for the defense of the nature as the WWF and Greenpeace. As in the preceding years the fashion and the music are imported from America and from England and spread in our country the study of the language English. The Italian cinema, entered crisis, produced film less important mottos" of cassette" because destined to be successful of public without the appreciation of the criticism and the cultural environment. Among the best films those can be remembered interpreted from Sordi and Manfredi that, also being comic, often handle important themes, interesting and of extreme actuality.
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