Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is Berkeley History Professor Lawrence Levine's Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, which tells, in impressive detail, the story of 19th-century America's unified culture--a time when upper and lower classes shared the same tastes, to their mutual benefit...
Levine instead suggests that these "popularized" plays "may be understood more meaningfully as having integrated [Shakespeare] into American culture." The Berkeley professor convincingly makes a similar case in the book that opera, the "fine" arts, like painting and sculpture, as well as "classical" music, once integrated American society, but now divide...
...proposal before the Berkeley city council becomes law, hoteliers will be offering more than a bed, bath and Gideon Bible. Leland Traiman, a registered nurse who treats AIDS patients, has suggested that the city help combat the spread of the disease by requiring hotels and motels to equip each guest room with safe-sex information kits, including condoms. The kits would also be distributed at some local massage parlors and saunas. "There could be a sign with each kit saying, THE BIBLE MAY SAVE YOUR SOUL, BUT THIS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE," says Traiman. Some innkeepers fear that guests might...
...obscure socialist magazine (circ. 7,000), MacDougall declares that during his 24-year career as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, he "helped popularize radical ideas" as a "usually covert, occasionally openly anti-Establishment reporter." A journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1987 (he is now on sabbatical), MacDougall, 57, says that only the security of tenure finally enabled him to reveal himself as a "closet socialist boring unobtrusively from within ((the)) bourgeois press." His epitaph: "Eugene V. Debs may be my all-time favorite American and Karl Marx...
Everywhere and all at once, students rose in protest and revolt. Chicago. Paris. Prague. Berkeley. The theme was. . .what...