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...recounted tales of student hunger strikes and sit-ins for the creation of ethnic studies departments, reminding students that Harvard had created the Afro-American Studies Department only after considerable student unrest in the 1960s...
...fools gladly, and to him the world is full of fools. Fuller, perhaps, than it really is. But he has been known to hit targets that few others would touch at the time: witness, for instance, his scarifying treatment of the ugly pretensions of English "black power" in the 1960s, in The Return of Eva Peron, with the Killings in Trinidad, 1980, a piece of reportage that says what good liberal opinion considered unsayable about the posturing and murderous Michael...
...have even drafted them into war, as when Captain America famously punched out Hitler. And as TV horned in on the comics audience, its superheroes reflected our moods in war and peace. The 1950s had its straight-arrow Superman; the 1960s, a campy Batman. After Vietnam, we saw comforting images of super-Americans (Wonder Woman, the Bionic Man and Woman); after the cold war, postmodern parodies (Space Ghost). Call it coincidence or prescience, but a new generation of prime-time superhero is arriving for a new decade and a new war. Smallville (the WB, Tuesdays...
...INTEREST RATES Bonds, money-market funds and other interest-paying investments haven't carried yields this low since the 1960s. For income, it may make more sense to own a stock like Bandag, a profitable industrial-tire company with a dividend yield of 4.6%?about the same as on long-term Treasury bonds...
...heard, if only for the fact that it captures the endearing surliness of the city: New Yorkers, and New York City bands, can be tough on anybody. Bob Dylan proved as much on his song "Positively Fourth Street," a wicked attack on arty poseurs in the village in the 1960s. The lyrics go: "I know the reason/ That you talk behind my back/ I used to be among the crowd/ You're in with." Now that?s New York...