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Rudenstine also spoke about the sale of the Riverway at Mission Park low-income housing complex in Roxbury to its tenants' association. The complex was built after a Harvard land purchase in the 1960s created community friction...
That, of course, is why they're so incensed by the impact the social movements of the 1960s have had on American society and why continue to claim that the days before the 1960s were the "good old days...
...announcement by the U.N. has dredged up all the old population growth fears first vocalized during the 1960s, fears which included starvation due to the overuse of farmland, worldwide epidemics, irreparable damage to countless species and habitats, and even global chaos and anarchy. Forty years and 3 billion people later, we seem only a few small steps closer to understanding and solving the problem of widescale overcrowding. It's a multifaceted battle that pits the optimists against the pessimists and the economists against the ecologists...
...number of black students in the College increased dramatically in the 1960s--and the nature of activism, particularly college activism, was very different, says Evans, who is now also a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Harvard Foundation...
...recalls 1960s-era Harvard Square as a place bustling with activism. By contrast, he remembers only one protest in recent memory...