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...apparent end of apartheid in South Africa means the end of years of controversy for the University--a period marked by protests, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience. For those involved in the fight over Harvard's policies toward South Africa during the heyday of that country's all-white regime, the scars of a bygone era will be hard to erase...
...since -- well, since before Sam Cohn's influence ebbed. In 1991 a New York- based movie star signed with Cohn's agency -- but with the understanding she would not work with Cohn. And Broadway, the classier-than-thou underpinning of his Hollywood power in his heyday, is no longer much of a creative epicenter; only two straight plays are currently running...
...enthusiastic sectarian style of American communists during the 1930s and 1940s traveled with the neoconservatives when they washed ashore as immigrants to the land of conservatism during the 1970s and 1980s. The rallying cry of race-blind equal opportunity, which was of little interest to right-wingers during the heyday of the civil rights movement, was later taken as the right's own in the struggle over affirmative action. And now, having spent recent years diagnosing a virus of democracy they label "political correctness," some conservatives seem to be succumbing themselves...
Boiling Point works best when it does for middle class decline what Rich and Poor did for income inequality. Using a flood of statistics and anecdotes, Phillips relentlessly persuades us that the middle class lost out during the most recent period of heyday capitalism...
Before the riot, the poor could at least gain a toehold in neighborhoods like the one at 14th and U streets in Northwest Washington, where the violence began. Though the district had faded badly from its heyday in the 1940s, when it ranked among the most vibrant black communities in the nation, it still had movie theaters, nightclubs and scores of thriving businesses. True, schools were slipping, crime was getting worse and some of the more affluent residents had moved away. But most of the area's hardworking families had no intention of abandoning one of the few relatively decent...