Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVEN MORE ANNOYING, the orations themselves give the impression that today, finally, in the merged-non-merged '70s, all is well at fair Harvard. We are proudly told of the fact that Radcliffe crew is still a Radcliffe, not a Harvard, team and that "equal-access" admissions has forever solved the perennial problem of the Harvard sex ratio. Ignored are the larger problems of equal funding for women's athletic teams and minority recruitment reluctance. One almost feels that the show was designed with nostalgic alumni in mind...
...show climaxes with a vast array of slides taken during the recent blizzard of locations throughout the University. Flashes of University Hall takeovers of the '60s and co-ed living of the '70s appear with appropriate rock music from both decades. This is pure Harvard, and no attempt is made to explain the significance of Radcliffe in these events...
Beginning with Reed's tenure in the Velvet Underground more than a decade ago, he has been fashioning some of the strongest music you can hear anywhere. Going solo, he anticipated and helped launch both the underground and glitter rock extravagances of the early '70s; his finely focused rage, his risk-it-all personal reflections, have given the punk rockers strong inspiration. Reed's recent Arista album, Street Hassle, is one of his very best, bitterest and most adventurous records, prime rock unconditionally guaranteed to give you the night sweats...
...framework of the sexual drama has changed, age has lost its determining relevance. Older women are no longer quite so afraid of becoming involved with younger men. With feminism and exposure to the brittle fragility of so many marriages in the '70s, women of almost all ages have developed a certain independence. In the past, as a matter of sociobiological order, desirable women (especially in youth-worshiping America) tended to be those of the courting age, from 17 or so to 25 or 28. Because married women were usually considered off limits, the focus of male desire was officially...
...that a Corporation subcommittee should make the decisions. Bennett seemed to think there were no ethical issues involved in stock decisions, because he never supported an anti-management statements in the trash as soon as he got them. When non-financial shareholder resolutions became more prevalent in the early '70s, Bennett's conservatism began to become a problem...