Word: 1970s
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...display of garbage sculptures mounted on pedestals and walls. But dissenting murmurs of ‘Hygiene!’ only provoke an affable greeting from Superintendent Gene Ketelholn, at whose hands the refuse of Massachussetts has been twisted and glued into meaningful shape since the early 1970s,” the article said. In addition to his art, Ketelhohn taught tai chi classes in Cabot for students and brought two different musical groups of which he was a member to play at House events, including a square dance. Livingston describes Ketelhohn as enthusiastic about “old-timey...
...struggling to figure out how exactly is it I’m supposed to feel about Harvard. My parents grew up during a time and in a place with a quite different value system and political circumstance from ours—the turmoil of China in the 1950s to 1970s, during which anything around you could change at any time and any provision could be taken from you at any moment...
...Most of us had grown up the sixties, and we assumed some measure of goodwill by the 1970s. It was just astonishing to me that such as esteemed institution of intellectual people could stick to its guns for so long,” he says. “I left with the idea that Harvard was a very conservative institution...
...Despite faculty support, students involved in the protests recalled that enthusiasm for the divestment issue had hit a lull in the early 1980s after its 1970s peak...
Further extensions would follow throughout the 1960s, followed by the abolition of parietals in the 1970s...