Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author directs most of his fire on the Democrats, who he claims are unwilling to promote the kind of "public values" -- self-reliance, responsibility, family stability and hard work -- that most Americans still hold dear. Fragmented by an intraparty civil war that began in the 1960s, Democrats misconstrued voter complaints about crime as racism and mistook the tax revolt of the 1970s for selfishness. Eventually, George Bush crucified Michael Dukakis when the Democratic nominee refused to comprehend why support for the Pledge of Allegiance mattered deeply to voters...
They should talk to the civil rights activists of the 1960s, who were seen on TV screens across the country being beaten and spat on by bigoted whites...
...There's more to life than becoming a member of the Establishment," he said, explaining that he came to this "understanding" while dropping acid with former Harvard lecturer and drug guru Timothy Leary. Leary left his post in the early 1960s, amidst charges of distributing hallucinogens...
...think that you are talking about something that started in the 1960s," said Matt Wise, 25, of Allston. "It has always been around, and it will always come back...
Some feared, however, that too great a hippie resurgence would turn Harvard Square into San Francisco of the late 1960s, which faced a dismal situation of too many people, too little food and too few places to stay...