Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pundits, professors and politicians agreed that today, the University's role in the nation's political life is less significant than it was in the late 1960s, when many Americans believed the architects of the Vietnam War came from academe...
...Using data from the 1960s through the 1980s, she found that choosing a college two "tiers" above another, the cheaper school in an eight-tiered national rankings system usually paid back the extra tuition money within a few years, and students always broke even within a decade...
...Hoxby used only data from male graduates--a decision she explained by saying that, since the 1960s, women's roles in the workforce and society have changed so much as to skew the data...
...police officer has become a mental-health adjunct ever since laws passed in the 1960s required mental wards to release anyone who did not want to stay, unless he or she could be proved dangerous. Massive deinstitutionalization occurred. Since 1969, 93% of psychiatric beds have been emptied across the country, and many of the mentally ill end up in the prison system or fending for themselves. Any other way leads to a legal morass. Zdanowicz says, "You can't force someone into an institution unless a whole bunch of criteria are met." The situation is so dire that if family...
...What does a retired ballerina do for an encore? Suzanne Farrell, whose cool lyricism and blazing virtuosity redefined American ballet in the 1960s and '70s, has put together a troupe of 16 young dancers to perform her stagings of works by Jerome Robbins, Maurice Bejart and her mentor, George Balanchine. The repertory includes Meditation, which Balanchine made for Farrell, then 18, in 1963. Until now, no other woman has ever appeared in Meditation. "Dancers have asked to do it in the past," she explains, "and I always said no. But then I suddenly thought, What am I saving...