Word: 1960s
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...often-violent activism of the 1960s took a new twist at the start of the new decade when a bomb exploded in Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA) in the early hours of October...
Howard says he was equally as impressed with Raines' "hell of a good" rendition of the monster mash, a well-known dance of the 1960s...
Much as the Depression bequeathed to our parents a reflexive economic insecurity, so too the late 1960s left many of us with a permanent sense of how violently our country's social fabric could unravel under stress. Though with time the healing would come, it has never quite wiped away the memory of our classmates' blood on the steps of University Hall...
...early 1960s, and Frederica Reiver, nee Potter, has married and borne a son to an unsuitable mate. Wealthy Nigel keeps her isolated in his country manor, strongly discouraging any contacts with her former Cambridge friends. "You knew what I was when you married me," she complains, "you knew I was clever and independent and--and ambitious--you seemed to like that." Nigel responds to their disagreements with escalating violence, and one night Frederica flees with her small son to the comparative safety of London...
...Woolf? shook Broadway out of its comfy seats in 1962 and established him as the premier American playwright of the post-Arthur Miller generation. Shepard (though his work has largely been ignored by Broadway until now) was the most acclaimed and charismatic playwright to emerge off-Broadway in the 1960s and '70s (The Tooth of Crime, Curse of the Starving Class). Now both authors are being celebrated with Broadway revivals of Pulitzer-prizewinning works from their most fertile periods. The two plays, which picked up 12 Tony nominations between them last week, remind us that old-fashioned stage virtues--originality...