Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the cold winter months, protesters representing the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) circled outside Mass. Hall hoisting cutouts of the former provost's head on sticks. At the time, workers were protesting the University's proposed cuts in health care benefits for part-time employees...
...inter-generational comparison is futile. Many of those who actively protested the Vietnam War had a great deal at stake--the danger facing them and their loved ones was real and immediate. Our generation, however, grew up during a relatively peaceful period, marked by the end of the Cold War. We are in the midst of an unprecedented economic boom dating back to 1983 (save the brief recession of 1991 which cost George Bush his job); the stock market is soaring; inflation and unemployment are low. And rapid technological advances have made daily life more efficient and more convenient...
...fact, the biggest danger of dubbing this generation apathetic is that "apathy" can become a cover for a new, real conservatism--a cold conservatism that threatens to undermine the accomplishments of the last four decades and leave millions of Americans out of the picture being drawn for the 21st century. The '60s were an especially challenging time. Thousands took the future in their hands and made change happen. But our generation has a challenge of its own: how to get outside of ourselves...
...battle of giants. The Cold War heated the classroom as the Herculean minds of professors Michael Walzer and Robert Nozick dueled over the moral worth of socialism and capitalism. It was also where E.J. Dionne '73, now a syndicated columnist, learned that fighting over politics does not have to end in a nuclear meltdown...
...world's savviest producer, Scott Rudin (In & Out, Clueless, The First Wives Club), who took it straight to Carrey. "Jim had the kind of madness the project needed to ultimately get made," he says. "And his warmth was a hedge against a movie that could have been on the cold side and needed someone with audience sympathy...