Word: brinkley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most of the campus uprisings that happened in the late '60s happened with some reference to what happened at Columbia," says Alan Brinkley, a former Harvard faculty member who is now a professor of history at Columbia. "The idea of occupying an administration building at Harvard certainly owed a lot to Columbia...
...Says Brinkley: "Both Harvard and Columbia were as much about finding ways to allow privileged students at universities to fulfill themselves as they were to fight particular social injustices...
...that grew up in the '60s in the midst of extraordinary affluence, that led us to expect something from the world that generations before us hadn't expected: a level of personal fulfillment and freedom, and the therapeutic gratification that society didn't make easy to maintain," says Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University and former Harvard faculty member...
...protests were not just against social injustice, but a fight against the obstacles to personal fulfillment," Brinkley says...
...reference to good old Alan Brinkley (flourit 1987) is a dead giveaway. Could any Harvard undergraduate pick him out of a police lineup? Doubt it. I confidently expect still to be hearing about old Alan as one of History's missed opportunities when I retire in 2025. Dear old fellow! Good old Crimson! So jolly dependable...