Word: 1960ã
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...Boston Public Library. So why this sudden (not to mention short-lived) desire to leave unfinished concrete pockmarked by identical one-inch holes? Concrete was the building material because of its “riot-proof” nature—an attractive asset after the events of the 1960??s. According to Mather Co-Master Sandra Naddaff ’75, the holes, which are a product of the mold into which concrete was poured, are actually meant to be decorative. While their success in serving this purpose is clearly debatable from an aesthetic standpoint, they have...
...commercial forces at work in the Square, who don’t have any sense of the quality, the character, the nature of the Square,” says Anthony Cornish, an artist in residence at Tufts University who has lived in the Square on and off since the 1960??s, raising his son in Cambridge for part of that time. “My son came back and said, ‘Where’s all the ice cream gone?’ It was more individualized back then, I suppose...
...that turbulence…enhance[d] the sense that there was a need to take careful account of all points of view,” said Derek C. Bok, Pusey’s successor as President. “The late 1960??s impressed upon administrators that their decisions had consequences...
...Linguistics department was in a shambles. It had never excelled in comparison to many of its national competitors, but by the early 1990’s the situation had become embarrassing—the department had only two tenured professors, and had not made a senior appointment since the 1960?...
...certainly notable that those on the Dean’s List went from 20 percent to 40 percent from 1920 to 1960??a doubling. But then there was another doubling from 1960 to 1970—only 10 years! And instead of falling, grades remained high and are still going higher. Lewis’s attempt to reduce this pattern to an average rise over the whole period from 1920 is laughably misleading...