Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1960s and early 1970s, many civil rights activists thought that their jobs were done. Having crushed the system of segregation, they believed that equality and racial prejudice would soon follow. Unfortunately, proponents of prejudice have moved into academia, as their forbears did in the late 19th century, and are leading the way towards re-establishing separate and unequal societies through the legislative branch of the state and federal governments. --Joshua Bloodworth...
...earliest pieces in the show, from 1954 to 1957, are terrible--Beat coffee-shop art writ large. What enabled him to become an artist in the 1960s was junk, scraps, the offcuts and excreta of America, which he combined first into small hybrid pieces and then into whole rooms and environments. As a hunter-gatherer, a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, he was a whiz. He put in everything, including the kitchen sink--no, make that the whole kitchen. Some of the catalog entries for this show, listing title, date and materials, sound more like small towns than works...
With the Unabomber, we have science employed to derail its own use and technology invoked to crumble technological advances. While the desire for a simpler and more pristine life crosses through all of us, the Unabomber sought changes that would best have been accomplished using means like the 1960s demonstrations and protests. Popular opinion can be swayed by example, and acceptance of views can be peacefully promoted by a smart leader. Some of the Unabomber's ideas have merit. Let's educate the people we wish to influence, not kill or maim them. DONALD C. RIFAS Sacramento, California...
...Harvard Square were filled with one-of-a-kind small businesses, that would be one thing. But when it looks like a smaller, outdoor version of the CambridgeSide Galleria mall, we see no reason why it should not allow more 24-hour stores. Gifford said that in the 1960s and '70s, "there were a lot of 24-hour places and they were a nightmare." Maybe that was because she and the other members of the Defense Fund were having bad dreams in their "residential areas." After all, they're not the ones who have to stay up all night, hungry...
...1960s and 1970s, those movements enlisted the energies of some of that generation's finest young whites, eager to express their altruistic impulses, to live and, if necessary, to die for noble ends. But from the late '60s on, the role of white liberals was circumscribed by the rise of black nationalists, who suspected that Northern whites were as eager to put their own virtue on display as to seek self-determination for Southern blacks. After all, the Shaw monument portrays the young colonel with his patrician features, astride his prancing steed, while his swarthy soldiers follow obediently...