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...popular TV star in the 1960s, but was reduced to dinner theater in Arizona in 1978, when he was brutally murdered." The answer: Bob Crane...
...declaring "it's time for a change"--using those words four times in the first five minutes of his speech alone. He pointed out increases in crime and welfare problems, since Kennedy took office 32 years ago, and said, "It's time to replace the philosophy of the 1960s with the philosophy...
Marxist thought rebounded in the late 1960s as flower children and disenchanted youth sought a new ideology. "People turned to Marx because it offered a kind of coherence that rivaled mainstream economics yet was fundamentally different," says Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin...
...depiction of Radcliffe's history had better not be too vivid, however, or it might not play in the '90s. Radcliffe was the college that let women remain second-class citizens on this campus for decades. Through the 1960s, Radcliffe women weren't allowed in Lamont Library, were forced to wear skirts to class and couldn't go into dining halls--unless, of course, they were somebody's date...
...Bell Curve's explosive contentions detonate under a cushion of careful shadings and academic formulations. Even so, they explode with a bang. To give credence to such ideas -- even when doing so with loud sighs of alas! -- is to resume some of the most poisonous battles of the late 1960s and '70s, when the sometimes cranky outer limits of the IQ debate were personified by Arthur Jensen, the Berkeley psychologist who stressed the link between race, genes and IQ, and William Shockley, who proposed paying people with low IQs to be sterilized. Murray says the reaction against them shut...