Word: 1960s
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...second great upheaval was the 1960s. Again, a rupture opened with the past; received standards and values were under siege, this time in the ferment of civil rights, the sexual revolution and Vietnam. In the arts the rumbling had started in the '50s, when Elvis Presley got everybody all shook up, when Jack Kerouac took to the road and Allen Ginsberg began to howl. In 1969, in a muddy field in New York's Catskill Mountains, more than 400,000 of their spiritual heirs gathered at the Woodstock Festival to stake their claim as a new generation...
...That was given by the Sudanese government to my grandfather, who was ambassador to the U.S. in the 1960s. My grandfather then gave it to me when I was preparing to come to America," el-Gaili says...
...presidency, Bunting-Smith wasoccasionally the victim of the unrest andrebellion that characterized the Harvard andRadcliffe student bodies in the late 1960s...
...undergraduate student in the mid-1960s, Georgi says his master in Eliot House, John H. Finley '25, was a paragon of leadership--devoting a great deal of personal attention to students and memorizing each resident's name...
Both James Houghton, who is a member of the Harvard Corporation and who currently chairs Corning, Inc., and Maisie Houghton say their ideas concerning the enhancement of undergraduate life were influenced by the women's movement of the 1960s. Maisie Houghton has long been involved in women's issues; she established a women's center in Corning, N.Y., and organized workshops in New York City on women and money...