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...Family Ties” has its roots in the definitive generation-gap comedy of the 1970??s, “All In the Family.” The working-class Bunker family, though less educated and refined than the Keatons, was just as diverse politically. The frequent debates between bigoted conservative Archie and his liberal son-in-law Michael mirror those between Alex and Steven Keaton. But while Archie Bunker’s children were adults who might be expected to challenge the crusty patriarch’s dogged views, the eldest Keaton siblings were mere adolescents...
Ironically, though, Rubins’ opposition is almost all rhetorical: logically, she is a feminist. One of the most radical ideas of 1970??s feminism, which is still at the core of almost all feminism today, was that women’s position in society is socially, not biologically, determined. This was, and still is, a fundamental tenet of almost anything that calls itself feminism...
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana were to the Olympia indie-cum-grunge scene what Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols were to punk rock—what began as an esoteric musical offshoot of political turmoil (in the case of punk, economic and social turmoil in late-1970??s Britain; in the case of indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed...
...born out of Harvard’s decision in the early 1970??s that it needed a radical change in its investment strategy, after a decade of stagnating returns when the growth of Harvard’s endowment barely kept pace with inflation, growing only about 25 percent...
...Former president Nathan M. Pusey ’28 established the University’s first committee on shareholder responsibility after a controversy over Harvard’s stock in General Motors company in 1970??the first such “shareholder responsibility” campaign in the country...