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Lynch added that she had dreamed of being a fellow for the Institute ever since she began attending study groups in the 1960s when she was working in Harvard Square...
Color-based immigration restrictions did not continue until 1973. They were first lifted in the late 1960s, under Prime Minister Harold Holt, and the process was completed by Edward Gough Whitlam’s Labor government...
...heterosexism because these inventions prove more accurate, useful tools in an ongoing battle for fairness and recognition, maybe not for everyone, but in strategic situations. Other groups, marginalized and otherwise, have done the same. The terms that the black civil rights movement used to identify its members in the 1960s aren’t the same as the ones that it employs today; even Republicans differentiate the paleoconservatives from the neoconservatives from the compassionate conservatives. It might be nice to pick a whole new slate of accurate terminology, but society at large doesn’t give us that option...
When he broke into TV in the mid-1960s, on shows like Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan, RICHARD PRYOR--who died last week of a heart attack at age 65--was a cute, rubber-faced young comic with a knack for physical comedy and a childlike sweetness; in one of his earliest bits, he impersonated a band of scared grade-schoolers performing Rumpelstiltskin. Within a few years, he had become America's most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley...
...Respect In his essay "What the Uprising Generation Wants," Charles Krauthammer wrote about the alienated young Arabs in France and their prospects for assimilation and success [Nov. 21]. I was startled by his assertion that France needs "to undertake the kind of self-reformation that America did in the 1960s, when it finally began welcoming African Americans into mainstream society." Is he forgetting the 1960s riots, led by unemployed and disenfranchised blacks, that engulfed the U.S.? I don't call that self-reformation. When black people took to American streets, they finally got a little respect. I suspect that...