Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly demographics is part of it. Very simply, there are fewer people in the most crime-prone category, which is males from the ages of 15 to 29. The crime spree that began in the 1960s was largely the work of baby boomers as they moved into those years. The same boomers are tipping into their 50s, an age when you're just right for fly fishing but not much good with a semiautomatic. The bad news, however, is that today's smaller cohort of teenagers is more prone to crime than its elders were at the same age. Among...
...units that Harvard owns. Is Kaufman suggesting that people would rather not be able to live in a home at all than live in someplace less "vibrant" than Harvard Square? Cambridge residents lived in Cambridge long before Harvard bought a large amount of its current properties in the 1960s...
...context of art history sometimes fails in not being extensive enough. Her portraits of specific artists and writers are well-rendered but too often fall short. Her cultural analysis too often resorts to cliche, as in her description of the climate at Mapplethorpe's school, Pratt, during the early 1960s: "In November, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, shattering America's idealistic view of itself. But no single incident triggered the sixties: instead, it was a steady buildup of events that converged, then exploded...
...MERCEDES BENZ VIA JANIS JOPLIN Sure, sure, it prostitutes the spirit of the 1960s, but the finest car ad of late achieves perfect-pitch simplicity. A new model E-class coasts toward us on the TV screen. The only sound we hear is Joplin belting her classic Mercedes Benz...
...debate about grade inflation continued when Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 linked inflated grades to the increased admission of black students in the 1960s in an article in Harvard Magazine...