Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beatles returned from India to release their imaginative "White Album." In The Graduate, the year's top-grossing film, Dustin Hoffman embodied the anxiety of a generation. The Tet offensive shattered America's illusions about military victory in Viet Nam. The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy shattered the nation's illusions, period. Lyndon Johnson dropped out. Richard Nixon bounced back. The Chicago police and their antiwar adversaries turned the Democratic National Convention into a riot...
...sudden sense of vacancy, of eternity, in Robert Kennedy's eyes on the floor of the Los Angeles hotel pantry. That vacancy, almost exactly halfway through the year, seemed to break the year's back. Nothing good, one thought, could happen after that...
...charismatic in a darkling way, ran a third-party campaign that attracted a large following among blue-collar workers, ethnics, and Middle Americans who felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion and longing for a voice...
...order to get the things that we want we [minorities] definitely have to work together," says Carlos R. Perez, Jr. '91, a member of the steering committee of the Chicano group Raza. And Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association President Robert L. Henry '90 says, "We all have a position in an interdependent society and our common future is inextricably intertwined...
...Tseng will be repeated over and over again if Harvard doesn't take steps to more stringently monitor its faculty's outside affairs," says Robert Weissman '89-'90, co-founder of the group Harvard Watch, which evaluates administration policies. "It's almost inevitable...