Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then Brown looked in the mirror, and what he saw changed his approach to life...
...class, the class of 1973, saw some of the most turbulent and troublesome times in the long history of Harvard University. We arrived in Cambridge in 1969, in the wake of the assassinations of my father, Robert F. Kennedy '48, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Riots tore apart American cities, and demonstrations against the war in Vietnam took on a fierce new urgency. The country was horribly divided, and Harvard offered a unique perspective on the most critical breaches...
...rest were not that great. We could wait. Perhaps a great apartment would become available. But, then we would have to go through the whole process of scurrying around Manhattan, gathering money and most likely not finding a place that would be as wonderful as the apartment we saw that day. From our limited experience, we decided we should take the apartment. We made the decision in 15 minutes...
There was little romance to it, little about which to be nostalgic today. The evils our nation faced were real and powerful. We saw injustice in the Vietnam War, in poverty, in hunger, in the inequities faced by African-Americans. Each of us responded in different ways. Some chose to be conscientious objectors. One friend spent a semester organizing mine workers. Still others joined the Students for a Democratic Society. Many more of us joined the protests around the country. We marched against the Vietnam War in Boston, New York and Washington. In the spring of 1970, our protests against...
...John Finley's humanities class, we learnedabout ancient Athens and the promise and perils ofdemocracy. We looked at ancient Greece and saw thechoice facing America: Will we be land-locked,walled, authoritarian Sparta, or theoutward-looking, democratic Athens? Can we havethe courage to be an open society, challenged andstrengthened by other cultures? Can we be daringand venture out to meet the future, rather thanlet it come...