Word: movements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instinct to make X, Y statements violates the liberal tradition, where did it come from? The women's movement of the 1950s aimed to make the personal political and the student movements of the 1960s sought to transform university education in the image of a diverse student body. We were left with a strong legacy of personality in the academy, sometimes clouding the classical format of scholarship. So much energy was spent making education more responsive to specific student identities that undergraduates could not refrain from infusing the personal into the academic. We all became more aware...
...account that she aggravated an old back injury while skiing in Utah. According to officials, Mrs. Clinton was sideswiped by another skier, which led to a review by Secret Service headquarters to make sure her security detail had been in place to deal with any sudden, threatening movement toward the First Lady. Mrs. Clinton, who wore a hat and dark glasses, apparently went unrecognized by the crowd at Deer Valley. She was standing at the bottom of a slope filled with inexperienced skiers when one of them lost control and ran over the back of her skis. Hillary fell, injuring...
...extremely disappointed to see SusannahTobin's column (Opinion, March 4) chastising the National Organization for Women (NOW). Tobin has joined the misguided cry by self-righteous conservatives and misguided liberals alike of "Where are the feminists?!" Some have lamented the fact that the presidential scandals have "divided the feminist movement" between those who have caved to political pressures, as Tobin describes, and those who have supposedly stuck to feminist ideals...
...Boston has been a social leech of Harvard College...when the supply of eligible young men in Boston was decreased by the westward movement, the Boston mammas suddenly became aware that Harvard contained many appetizing young gentlemen from New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere...In vain are freshmen tossed onto the same heap; freshman fellowship, brisk enough in the opening days of College and the first elections of committees, blows away in a whiff of invitations to dances and week-end house parties. The social cleaver widened the chasm that a mistaken laissez-faire created between Yard and Gold Coast...
...some progress has been made. The more surprising victory to emerge from the "Rally for Justice" was the University's announcement it would require companies that make Harvard insignia apparel to reveal where their factories are located, one of the central demands of the Progressive Student Labor Movement's anti-sweatshop campaign. Though it remains to be seen how this new policy will be implemented and enforced, it is still a promising step in the right direction...