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Johns, reknowned for paintings like the Flag (1954), marked the transition of American art from the Abstract Expressionism of the '40s and '50s to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His abstract canvases of the late 1960s, replete with real brooms, rulers and kitchen utensils, recall the iconography of Surrealists like Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst...
Throughout the 1960s, college campuses were the center of liberal activism. In 1969, Harvard undergraduates stormed University Hall to protest the Vietnam War and to demand the school dissociate itself from the Pentagon and weapons research...
Landry says the kind of liberal demonstrations that characterized the volatile campus atmosphere at Harvard in the 1960s are symbols of a bygone...
...more visible results of the controversy is that it rekindled the passions that had been damped for decades. At the 16th Street Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. organized demonstrations during the 1960s, throngs of demonstrators waving placards that read RACISM WILL NOT PREVAIL, WE SHALL OVERCOME and RACISM IS CORRUPTION were led in old movement anthems by grizzled civil rights veterans like Woods and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. They hoped they were writing a new chapter in an old book. "We put it together once," roared Shuttlesworth to stamping applause, "and we can put it together again." Blacks...
Cancellation of the bomber would be the latest blow to California's struggling aerospace and defense industry, which accounted for 15% of the state's economy in the late 1960s but only about 7% today. "The average worker has been laid off and called back many times," says Bonnie Sherman, a vocational counselor for jobless defense employees in Southern California. "They used to say, 'That's O.K., I'll run over to Northrop or Hughes.' But the government isn't giving these corporations the contracts they are used to," she adds. "We're in a peace economy...