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...according to Watson. But the school authorities inBrooklyn didn't assign an equally high value toWatson's education, he says. Classified aslearning disabled in elementary school for noparticular reason, Watson continued his career inthe public schools during the height of the BlackPower movement and the urban riots of the late1960s...
Following the student activism of the late1960s, the University decided to increase thefunding for house activities in an attempt to makethe houses more appealing. The house masters nowshare $98,654 from a special endowment fund,$289,860 from a "house fund," and $220,000 forhouse libraries, Gefter says. The money is dividedon the basis of house populations, Gefter says,except the Quad houses, which have use of HillesLibrary, receive a smaller proportion of thelibrary fund...
...late1960s, and through most of the 1970s, some fundamental and widely shared cultural views changed in the U.S. With the economy booming, many Americans were liberated from old anxieties about material success. The belief that hard work, self-denial and moral rectitude were their own rewards gave way to a notion, held fervently and misguidedly by some, that the "self and the realization of its full "potential" were all-important pursuits. This phenomenon was ridiculed as the "me" decade by Writer Tom Wolfe and the "culture of narcissism" by Social Critic Christopher Lasch...
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