ABSTRACT
The 1950s and 1960s are often characterized as quite different periods despite historians’ warning of the conceptual dangers of drawing artifi cial boundaries around epochs. Nevertheless, there are popular images of these two decades. The 1950s are milkshakes at the local soda fountain and co-eds in skirts with appliquéd poodles; the 1960s were tie-dyed and rocked by exuberant music, political turbulence, and student activism on college campuses. The key fi gures whose work in gifted education appears in this section of Illuminating Lives experienced both kinds of zeitgeist.
