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...resurgence of interest in Keynes also doesn't represent a full return to 1960s-style Keynesianism--the belief, shared by many economists and politicians in those days, that government could tame the business cycle and guarantee good economic times indefinitely...
...more importantly, the donation enables Harvard to expand into previously unchartered territory with regard to contemporary art. “It allows us for the first time to display the very important advances made in sculpture in the 1960s and ’70s,” says Molesworth. “The Pulitzer gift contains eight pieces from that period in our history so it radically changes our ability to tell the story of post-World War II art.” These sculptures include works by Donald Judd and Richard Serra, as well as other significant contemporary figures...
...After waking up bright and early (read: noon) on the Fifth, I set out with my roommate Jon, his friend Tim, and one of my fellow interns, Kevin, to explore Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood famous for spawning the hippie movement of the 1960s. We made our way down the central vein of the neighborhood, which brought us to the entrance of Golden Gate Park, an urban green space of more than 1000 acres, making it larger than Frederick Olmsted’s creation in New York City. Having heard that there were live buffalo in the park...
...recently—indicated that the city is already feeling the effects of a statewide spike in the number of people living on the street. “The Combat Zone has been closed down,” Reeves said, referring to an area of Boston that in the 1960s and ’70s was known for being dangerous and full of adult entertainment venues. “People need somewhere else to go, and that cannot be Central Square.” Reeves described seeing unfamiliar people pushing shopping carts full of blankets around Central Square recently...
...1960s, the Charlesview Apartments were born amid fervent community protests, built upon the rubble of homes razed in the name of urban renewal...