Word: 1960s
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Whenever something displeases the liberals, we immediately hear cries of fascism, capitalism, racism, etc. Maybe Malisani forgot that 1960s liberals engaged in exactly the same "fascist" tactics that the Conservative Club uses today. The problem Harvard liberals now face is coping with the fact that they are now the Establishment...
...emerging as Deng's leading rival is another octogenarian, Peng Zhen, 84, chairman of the National People's Congress and a Marxist of the old school. Peng, a contender for top party posts in the early 1960s, was purged in 1966. He is reported to be bitter that he has never been elevated by Deng to the party's top echelon. However, he has turned the Congress, once a legislative rubber stamp, into a center for opposition to Deng's reforms...
Contemporary Black writers will discuss the influence their 1960s predecessors had on their own work. The 1960s witnessed a heyday in published Black poetry, said Carolivia O. Herron, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies and chair of the conference...
Compared with militant poems by writers like Baraka in the 1960s, poetry has become "more private, more personal, more subjective," said poet and author Ishmael Reed, visiting professor of Afro-American literature from the University of California at Berkeley...
Black poets today write more on the politics of feminism and international issues, particularly the Black struggle in South Africa, than on domestic issues such as the civil rights movement as they did in the 1960s, said Herron...