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Allen Ginsberg. Timothy Leary. The Grateful Dead. These men were the links in the daisy chain of 1960s counterculture, the original hippies. Like Marx stewing away in the British Library, they were the vanguard of a movement of radical thought...
Plans for a massive library beneath the lawn between 17 Quincy St. and Lamont library were in the news by the mid-1960s. Pusey library, which contains overflow books from Widener and the University archives and map collection, was completed in 1973. It is named in honor of the former president...
...commercials. But Pepsi will take the champ head on. Touting "gulpability" (achieved by using wide-necked bottles), All Sport ads will knock Gatorade by stressing that, in the words of a Pepsi spokesman, "there is no reason a sports drink can't taste good." The commercials will also contrast 1960s black-and-white sports scenes with contemporary color action to emphasize that "our drink was formulated a generation after theirs...
THESE DAYS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN BE ACcused of is good intentions. George Bush imputes good intentions to the antipoverty efforts of the 1960s and '70s as a preface to saying they've backfired. Bush's Republican rival, Patrick Buchanan, then trumps him by pre-emptively tarring any new antipoverty efforts with the same brush. "In the wake of Los Angeles," Buchanan declares, "everyone has a 'solution' to the 'problem.' And these solutions come from earnest and well-intentioned men and women." Officer, stop that man! He's armed with good intentions...
...shocking to read President Johnson's words from the 1960s. He spoke bluntly about "white guilt" and "equality ((of)) result." These phrases violate the taboos of 1992's conservative political correctness. And of course anything as grandiose as a "war on poverty" is unthinkable today. Why is that? People say we have lost the economic optimism and national self- confidence of the 1960s. But the 1980s were also a period of national economic optimism, yet that is when the War on Poverty was officially declared unwinnable. And even the sad-sack 1990s are objectively richer than the 1960s. The difference...