Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assassination have nagged the nation for nearly 28 years, rousing emotions, inciting speculation, provoking arguments. It was probably inevitable that Hollywood would step into this minefield sooner or later -- and probably inevitable that the man leading the charge would be Oliver Stone, filmdom's most flamboyant interpreter of the 1960s (Platoon, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July...
...most foreign policy" and economic issues, Gallagher explains that Silber's willingness to bring up issues that no other politician would touch attracted him to the Boston University president. Only Silber would bring "some fresh thinking about the most closely-held ideas the Democrats have held since the 1960s. Unfortunately he tended to express them in a blunt, sometimes offensive...
...Harvard has been waxing and waning since the 1950s. In the 1950s, it came from the right during the McCarthy period," Wilson says. "In the 1960s, PC turned 180 degrees from radical right to radical left. The leftist orientation of PC has been waxing and waning at most universities ever since...
Early in his career as a Harvard administrator, Bok became known for his skillful handling of student protesters. He is frequently credited with having helped calm the campus unrest of the 1960s and early 1970s...
...early and mid-1960s, when men on campus were obsessed with thoughts of the draft and 'Cliffies were awakening to the first moments of the women's movement, soon gave way to a more tumultuous era at the University in the later part of the decade, Bok said...