Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early 1960s followed the most sustained period of affluence and growth in American history. My generation was heir to that affluence, and everybody thought that the world was America's oyster. With that kind of economy, almost anything seemed possible," says Miller...
...economy is so different now. There is a different kind of pressure on students today. There is a need for young people to get out and make money--a lot of money. They do not have the freedom of the 1960s, when students were able to live on the fringes of the economy," says former Black Power leader Julius Lester, a professor of Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
Although most say it is more effective politically for groups to focus their efforts in this way, Miller says, activists who do so may be missing the message of the 1960s...
...What happened at Rutgers is very depressing," says Miller. "In three days, the students managed to duplicate all of the most idiotic features of 1960s sectarianism...
...students today should go about creating a new student movement Christopher Lasch, a professor of history at the University of Rochester, says students need to begin again, without trying to follow the model of the last generation, but others say students need to recapture the idealism of the 1960s...