Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting with her women's auxilliary club, while Daddy (Donal Logue) spends his reading the paper in his easy chair. Mommy wears a bright pink party dress, the kind that domestic ex-prom queens like June Cleaver and Donna Reed wore on TV sitcoms in the 1950s and early 1960s. In fact, TV-sitcom theme songs play in the background to drive home the point of Mommy and Daddy's TV-perfect lifestyle...
Without the same feeling of hope and optimism that characterized the early 1960s, the student movement of the 1980s will not be the same, say many professors...
...people are missing the point about the 1960s. Then, people believed that anything and everything was possible. That belief bound together everything that was good and horrible within the movement," says Miller...
...expected that Harvard's brand of activism would involve so much tolerance on the University's part, and so much cooperation on the activists' side. She says Harvard activism is almost a cooperative effort between students and administrators, far from the direct opposition that characterized the movement in the 1960s and 1970s...
Most students agree that activism at Harvard has changed since the 1960s, saying it has become less confrontational and more cooperative with the University administration. In addition, campus activism has turned inward, diverting its attention from problems abroad...