Word: 1950s
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Carol Gilligan was born in 1936 in New York City. She majored in English at Swarthmore College during the 1950s: it was an "extraordinary time" at Swarthmore, she says...
...Weather project remains uncertain, but it undoubtedly came in response to the Soviet Union's 1949 detonation of an atom bomb and the grave concern that event triggered in the U.S. Bellicose Soviet rhetoric, McCarthyite hectoring and, soon after, the Korean War persuaded senior U.S. officials in the early 1950s that provisions would have to be made to protect the country's leaders against a possible nuclear attack. Thus the search began for an impregnable site to which the President and other top officials could be spirited in case of a war emergency...
...that time, Evans says, "minority" generally referred to "Black." The late 1950s were the first time "large numbers" of Blacks--10 to 15--were admitted to Harvard. By the late 1960s, Evans says, there were approximately 40 Black students per class. With the class of '73, the number of Black students finally rose above...
...1950s and 1960s we did have a very good source in the American mission in West Berlin -- a German in the political section. So I don't want to present a picture of us being completely harmless. But except for this, I believe I do not merit praise for our work...
...specific expectations: a small residential community, detached house, stable environment and homogeneous neighbors -- people who acted and thought like themselves. Well, instead, the reality they soon lived in was a vast sprawl, unaffordable homes, landscapes that changed before your eyes. Meanwhile, a county that in the 1950s had been 90% white Anglo now had 800,000 Hispanics, Asians and blacks. So much for homogeneity of neighbors...