Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general public has the impression they all died out in the 1960s," says Michael Cummings, a University of Colorado, Denver, political scientist who has studied communes for 17 years. In fact, Cummings estimates, there are now tens of thousands of "intentional communities"--groups of people who reject conventional neighborhoods and live with others who share their values or interests...
...DANGEROUS FRIEND by Ward Just. A well-meaning American sociologist arrives in Vietnam in the mid-1960s on a quasi-official mission to help prop up the civil government. What follows is a small, tense drama that foreshadows the wartime tragedies that lie ahead. Knowing how reality turned out makes this fiction not a whit less engrossing or enlightening...
...then there are the students who frantically pump iron at 1 a.m. in the house gym. And sing along to Motown hits of the 1960s at the top of their lungs. Many Harvard students, it seems, are as obsessive about Stairmasters as they are about Sartre...
...funding for computers and educational materials. That case, notes Cohen, will be closely watched: "Separation of church and state is one of the thorniest issues facing this court," he says, and to date, the Justices have given some indication that they may not agree with the precedents of the 1960s and '70s - most of which dictated a very clear-cut division between the two entities...
From the Free Speech movement in the 1960s to the city council's 1991 abolition of Columbus Day in favor of 'Indigenous Peoples' Day,' the city and the university have together led the crusade for liberal social change...