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Books such as Toni Morrison's novel Beloved can be valuable resources in studying the emotional ordeals of slave women, a Wellesley history professor told about 100 people at the opening speech last night for Women's History Week...
SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison...
SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison...
Fresh out of the University of Pennsylvania, a 22-year-old from Illinois named Donald Morrison landed a job at TIME in New York City and was searching for an apartment on the Upper West Side. This otherwise ordinary venture happened to occur in the extraordinary year of 1968. And so Morrison, looking for a Columbia University student willing to share his digs, found himself instead stranded inside Hamilton Hall just as campus activists took over the building. To escape, Morrison recalls, "I dived out a bathroom window in the back...
Twenty years later, we tapped Morrison for the job of bringing that tragic, pulsating, mythical year into perspective for our first TIME pictorial collector's edition, 1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation. A true child of the '60s, Morrison, now special projects editor, had even planned to spend his honeymoon at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, until his bride-to-be put her foot down. In 1968, he says, "we tried to capture something of the year's amazing, compelling electricity...