Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four or five years ago, there is a stirring among students," says James E. Miller, a lecturer in Social Studies and author of Democracy Is In The Streets; From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, one of the first books in the recent wave of studies on the 1960s. "Students today are looking for alternatives in a way which I have not seen in a while," he says...
...interest in student activism picked up with the collapse of Reaganistic policies," says Miller. He sees a similarity between the state of the country today, as Reagan's presidency nears its end, and the political climate of the early 1960s, when a comparatively liberal Democratic government replaced McCarthyism and the Eisenhower administration...
...Democrat is elected president, we could possibly be in a situation similar to the early 1960s," says Gitlin...
...many professors warn that a lack of optimism among students today prevents them from devoting themselves to political change in the same way that students in the 1960s...
...optimism of the 1960s grew out of an affluent stable economy, in which students had the economic freedom to devote themselves to politics, says Miller...