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Charlesview—the grey, monolithic apartments that were erected in the 1960s??was identified by the federal government as a troubled property need of repairs...
Charlesview—the grey, monolithic apartments that were erected in the 1960s??was identified by the federal government as a troubled property in need of repairs in 1995. Jacques said that the future site will allow the community to relocate to up-to-date facilities that give them access to green space while remaining affordable...
...Explosions of “awareness” are a new thing. In the last serious decade of student activism—the 1960s??people tended to campaign for more concrete reforms. Curiously, this spate of “awareness” arrives at the nadir of political participation among college students in recent decades. The more “aware” we are, it seems, the less we actually...
...loss,” Roll said. He considers Borges—who held the Charles Eliot Norton professorship of poetry at Harvard in the late 1960s??to be the 20th century’s most influential writer, and “Pierre Menard” its finest short story...
...experiment with an alternative policy and tightened the hands of future decision-makers willing to ‘carrot’ [Cuban dictator] Fidel Castro, instead of just ‘stick’ him.” After three instances of covert diplomatic contact in the early 1960s??the first with Cuban official Ernesto “Che” Guevara to discuss Castro’s agenda; the second, a meeting concerning prisoner exchange; the third, a series of talks which dissolved after squabbles—the White House under John F. Kennedy...