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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about in tight-fitting Levi's and bomber jacket (one current uniform), there are others who wear three-piece pinstripe suits, and even the strollers in New Town and Castro Street will affect one look today and another tomorrow. What does seem to be true, however, is that some open gays, feeling themselves to be rebels against conventional society, search restlessly for new fashions that run counter to the straight taste of the moment. Then fashion designers and music executives, some of whom are themselves gay, introduce to straight audiences whatever new look or sound catches on at Fire Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: How Gay Is Gay? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...most boats, when they win by open water, there is wild celebration. There is none of the jubilation if we don't feel we've rowed well," Brown said. In fact, "the boat coming back sounded like an elevator coming up out of a coal mine"--just a log of coughing and silence...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Lights Sweep in Biglin Over Dartmouth, MIT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...knew very well. Young asked, "Why are you doing this?" The student was crying as he seized Young, and said simply, "I've got to, I've got to." The movement countered establishment codes with its own, often unreasoning, standards of conduct; but it also widened the choices open to a later, more calculating, generation of students. John C. Marquand, senior tutor of Dudley House since 1970, describes the change as a shift in the College administration, a move to a "less interventionist" policy regarding student' private lives. Students now have less of a feeling of being manipulated by authority...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Ten Years After the Strike | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...professor of Economics, chaired the committee, which eight months later produced a report calling for the creation of a degree program in Afro-American Studies, establishment of a center for black students, and creation of a new committee to revamp African studies. Another issue had come out into the open...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Strike as History | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty and Master of Dudley House, yesterday tentatively cancelled the Currier House Dramatic Society's production of "Tommy," scheduled to open Thursday at Dudley House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whitlock Halts 'Tommy' Debut | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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