Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lottery this year will take 17 days, instead of the more than three weeks it has taken since it began in the late 1960s. To ease student anxiety, housing officials reduced the amount of time freshmen must wait between turning in completed house choice forms and receiving their final assignments, Colvin said...
...process of change, however, is alreadyunderway, spurred on by an increasingly large andactivist pool of women in academia. These women,who entered the profession in the aftermath of therevived women's movement of the late 1960s, havesparked an increased interest in feministscholarship...
...which is rife with supposed nonpresidents, especially among the current leaders. Michael S. Dukakis began his career as a local attorney, then became a state legislator, then lieutenant governor, then governor, then governor again and soon...well, who knows? Jesse Jackson was a young civil rights leader in the 1960s. He didn't gain his prominence, even as the leading national Black leader, until he entered the presidential race in 1984. And let us not forget that Richard Gephardt is after all a simple congressman representing a portion of St. Louis...
...Broadway theater still has its headquarters in the half-mile strip north of 42nd Street. With its theaters, odd shops and even odder people, Times Square remains a singularly exciting place. But the balance between high life and low life did tip for the worse during the 1960s and '70s. Pornography merchants proliferated, and street criminals grew more brazen. Funk and festivity were too often edged out by rattiness and fear...
...together. Built at the turn of the century, Times Tower (now One Times Square) was the odd but lovable younger sister of the classic Flatiron Building a mile down Broadway -- until its terra-cotta exterior was ripped away in favor of a charmless white marble skin in the mid- 1960s. The dowager has been turned into a cheap mummy, yet the disposition of Times Tower remains an architectural cause celebre. Johnson and Burgee once proposed that the building be stripped down to its steel skeleton, gaily painted and lighted -- a wry Piranesian folly absolutely perfect for the spot. What seems...