Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Bonnie Raitt spoke at Agassiz Theater last Friday as part of the Arts First week celebration, she trumpeted the Harvard she knew in the 1960s--a campus which thrived on activism and artistry, protest and politics, and above all else, awareness. What happened to that Harvard...
Increasingly, though, the tax is hitting professionals and middle managers--lawyers, accountants, engineers, sales managers. Some own homes they bought for $20,000 or so in the 1960s that are worth easily 10 times as much today. Many have socked away money in mutual funds or burgeoning 401(k) plans, reinvested dividends and capital-gains distributions, and piled up huge profits--so far mostly on paper...
...time, to ensure that all employees attend meetings that frequently center on the environment and other social issues. He and like-minded leaders view profits as a product of doing the right thing. Interestingly, such executives tend to be onetime idealists in their late 40s or 50s. In the 1960s they might have been at sit-ins for social justice. Today they have enough success to apply practical ways to achieve their goals...
...might go home after school and find meaning in the words of Courtney Love. Perhaps because TV has always been a few steps behind other media in the race to reprocess and package alternative culture (remember that the women's movement was already in swing in the late 1960s, but you could still tune in to a midriff-baring Barbara Eden addressing Larry Hagman as "Master" on I Dream of Jeannie), it has taken a while for empowered girls to be granted their time slots...
CRYSTAL BOYS, A DRAMA ABOUT GAY MALE LIFE IN Taiwan in the 1960s, is a performance that lies at the intersection of several motivations. It is associated with Queer Harvard Month; it is also, more importantly, the culmination of this season of ACTS, the Adams House Chinese Theater Series, dedicated to bringing Chinese theater to Adams House. Lying at this intersection, the show is set within a very interesting milieu and has created a remarkable atmosphere. Its overall integrity, however, seems occasionally shaky...