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...There's more to life than becoming a member of the Establishment," he said, explaining that he came to this "understanding" while dropping acid with former Harvard lecturer and drug guru Timothy Leary. Leary left his post in the early 1960s, amidst charges of distributing hallucinogens...
...think that you are talking about something that started in the 1960s," said Matt Wise, 25, of Allston. "It has always been around, and it will always come back...
Some feared, however, that too great a hippie resurgence would turn Harvard Square into San Francisco of the late 1960s, which faced a dismal situation of too many people, too little food and too few places to stay...
...Clark controversy is not unusual on today's combative campuses, but it reveals much about the nature of academic protests--and protesters--these days. Inspired by their nostalgia for the 1960s, militants jump at the chance to demonstrate and disrupt, no matter how flimsy or ill-conceived the cause. But when challenged to defend their actions either legally or intellectually, they cry foul and rush to the protective cover of their empty rhetoric and "victim" status...
...peak. Liberals and conservatives alike have suddenly joined forces to ridicule the excesses of left-wing policies and posturing in academia. It is almost as if, having exorcised the legacy of Vietnam in foreign policy, Americans are now mounting a mopping-up operation against that last bastion of 1960s-style thought, colleges and universities...