Word: 1960s
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Allen Ginsberg. Timothy Leary. The Grateful Dead. These men were the links in the daisy chain of 1960s counterculture, the original hippies. Like Marx stewing away in the British Library, they were the vanguard of a movement of radical thought...
Plans for a massive library beneath the lawn between 17 Quincy St. and Lamont library were in the news by the mid-1960s. Pusey library, which contains overflow books from Widener and the University archives and map collection, was completed in 1973. It is named in honor of the former president...
...Area's gay and lesbian community, ran a cover showing Hongisto in a doctored photograph grasping a nightstick in a lewd fashion. The headline read, DICK'S COOL NEW TOOL: MARTIAL LAW. The article slammed Hongisto, a sympathetic veteran of the city's Flower Power demonstrations in the 1960s, who three weeks ago ordered massive police sweeps that resulted in more than 1,700 arrests. The show of force enraged liberals and inspired the Bay Times story. Hongisto, appointed by Mayor Frank Jordan only six weeks ago, denies ordering his cops to remove the offending newspapers from display. But according...
BRAZILIAN MUSICMAN SERGIO MENDES captivated U.S. audiences in the 1960s by adding a light bossa-nova flavor to pop tunes like The Look of Love. But today's record buyers, their tastes enlivened by the spicier fare of Jamaican reggae and South African mbaqanga, demand more authentic sounds. In his new album, Brasileiro, Mendes digs deeper into his musical roots to produce a down-home sampler ranging from a lively baiao -- folk music from Brazil's northeast -- to an off-beat Bahian-style rap. There are lots of leisurely sambas too, but the best selections are those on which drummers...
...arms laden, demonic grins on their faces, are film from heaven. Never in the past have the Republicans had available such a record -- but they are past masters at exploiting the revulsion such travesties spark. The G.O.P. has been running tough-on-crime commercials since the riots of the 1960s first permitted them to rail against permissiveness as they played to white America's nightmares. Twenty years before Willie Horton, the 1968 Nixon campaign ran an ad in which a white woman, her purse gripped firmly in hand, hurried down an empty city street as an announcer said, "Freedom from...