Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dockham is upset about Harvard's recently disclosed participation during the 1950s and 1960s in radiation experiments conducted by University-affiliated scientists on retarded children, without the informed consent of the children or their parents. Harvard has acknowledged that the tests occurred, and a task force headed by Provost Jerry R. Green is investigating the extent of the University's involvement...
...They looked partly human, partly simian, and Dubois decided that they belonged to an ancient race of ape-men. He called his creature Anthropopithecus erectus; its popular name was Java man. Over the next several decades, comparable bones were found in China (Peking man) and finally, starting in the 1950s, in Africa...
...Harvard graduate called this week for the University to apologize publicly for radiation experiments conducted by its researchers in the 1950s and 1960s and to work to codify rights for subjects of medical experiments...
...shares Presley's taste for loud music and louder costumes. But at the rink he is determined. "I'm very hungry for what I want," he says. "Nothing's going to stand in my way." His parents, Steve and Irene, emigrated from Eastern Europe to Ontario in the mid-1950s. Maybe his flair has been inherited; they named their first son Attila. At age 2, Elvis looked at skating on TV and announced that he wanted to do that. It was nearly three years before the Stojkos relented, but the rest is history: Elvis has been in high-level competition...
...surface, this movie deals with the alcoholism, sexism and abuse of the really codependent but superficially "O-so-happy, June Cleaver" marriages of 1950s America. Through the dialogue and manners of Blanche Dubois, we realize how easily the surface can be scraped away to reveal the truth. Typically Southern and truly deceptive, Blanche speaks her bitter grain of truth wrapped in a sugar coating of politeness...