Word: 1960s
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Randall's fate is that he is seldom more than a wobbly focus of contention around which Miller examines the enigmas of matrimonial and blood ties. The breakup of the Eberhardt marriage and the difficulties of the children as they come of age in the counterculture 1960s and self-absorbed '70s are plausible with or without the issue of autism. In fact, when Miller is at her most perceptive and sympathetic, Randall, Bettelheim and Freud seem incidental baggage to this otherwise affecting family novel about changing values and resilient affections...
...that, it is Gantt. He is a far cry from Helms' description of him as "Jesse Jackson's candidate." An M.I.T.-trained architect, he operates in the smooth, reserved style of such rising black politicians as Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder. A veteran of sit-ins during the 1960s, Gantt demonstrated his crossover potential in 1983, when he ran for mayor of Charlotte, a city that was 75% white. He won with 52% of the vote...
...first years in office were largely occupied with restoring order to a divided and sometimes violent campus. The late 1960s saw escalating student anti-war protests, culminating in the occupation of University Hall and a violent police crackdown ordered by President Nathan M. Pusey...
ROTC had left Harvard in the wake of the anti-Vietnam War protests of the late 1960s...
...media barrage, students seem prone to abandon a healthy skepticism of events and indulge in nostalgia or extravagant self reflection. It seems a choice between television's "The Wonder years" and "thirtysomething." Talk to some under graduates and their eyes glaze over with longing at the mention of the 1960s student movements. Others engage in a never-ending, narcissistic evaluation of our own contemporary emotional well being, the value of our "life choices," or simply how much money we can make before...