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...course, you have to think of the overall goal, what the mission of the museum is--the Fogg, for example, is a kind of encyclopedic museum. When the Rose was opened in the 1960s, there was a hope that it would be based on the model of colleges like Harvard or Yale, and that we would collect from all different periods and places. It was at the end of the 1970s that we redefined the mission: that we would deal with modern and contemporary...
Last year's theme was songs of the 1960s and '70s, leading to slogans like "Let It Be," "I've Got You Babe...
...until the 1960s, when Cleveland-based Calkins joined the Corporation, most of the Fellows were from New England...
...there was always Schulz. "Peanuts" was his life, and we followed its arc in the lines he drew for the strip: Tentative at first, in "Li'l Folks," the proto-"Peanuts" comic started for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1947; bold, strong and in control it its 1960s heyday (even Linus lookedsecure); ragged in its final years. Somehow, even though we all knew what to expect - and what an ultimate betrayal that would have been, for Lucy to actually let Charlie Brown kick that football - we were always interested in the whole neurotic gang, and now that Charles Schulz...
Even with the necessary support, though--say, a debating society or political union--incivility might still squelch debate. Today, most questions on which reasonable people can disagree are respectfully discussed, although casual accusations of bigotry limit debate on issues related to homosexuality or race. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, such name-calling (occasionally backed with force) silenced genuine debate on a much wider range of issues...