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Although I have never lived in New Orleans proper, I have worked and spent much time there, experiencing firsthand the city's glory days during the late 1960s and early 1970s and its depressing decline since then. I remember childhood shopping trips with my parents inside the big, bright, block-long department stores that once lined Canal Street. My parents did their monthly grocery shopping at the cavernous Schwegmann's supermarkets in the city and treated my younger sister and me to movies and a few Mardi Gras parades there. Without us, my mother and father enjoyed frequent weekend excursions...
...1960s and 1970s may be the only decades in human history—at Harvard, anyway—where ugly buildings were somehow desirable. All over campus, starkly geometric concrete slabs were erected like tombstones, housing students and offices, and raising the ire of those who prefer serene beauty to hideousness for diversity’s sake. We are not worried that the University will repeat the same mistakes, but after the presentation of sketches for Allston’s first new building—a science complex—students cannot help but wonder if the University will make...
DIED. Kay Noble-Bell, 65, fierce, feminine star wrestler of the 1960s and '70s; of stomach cancer; in Amarillo, Texas. Known for gravity-defying leaps in the ring to evade such opponents as Gladys (Kill 'Em) Gillem, Noble-Bell wrestled her first match at 18 and competed for 30 years...
...CARE AND TWEAKING OF SEQUELS. The givens of M:i:III are a theme (spy team saves world with gadgets and lifelike masks), a jazzy jingle (Lalo Schifrin's, from the 1960s TV series) and, crucially, a star--the star, Tom Cruise, as Mission stud Ethan Hunt. Problem is, Cruise's stature instantly torpedoes the notion of team spirit. The others push buttons and get in trouble; he rides motorcycles, runs the length of Shanghai and eats up all the screen time. Is there room for a collective hero in star vehicles? Discuss...
...focus on the substantive, not the rhetorical, differences between the two parties.The latest Framer to make a stir outside of the narrow world of Democratic activists is Michael Tomasky. He argues that Democrats need to move away from the interest group politics that has characterized the party since the 1960s and start talking about the “common good.” Since the late 1960s, according to Tomasky, the Democratic Party has spent its energy worrying about the interests of individual oppressed groups—blacks, gays, etc.—instead of the good of the nation...